A Zodiac Brave story

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2010-07-24T02:08:00.001-07:00

A few days time to Grand Slam and currently sucking up with the sixth week in a place of inefficient trash holes. It's already half way there and we are already half way down. One after another taking the easy way out of this hell only left the rest of us even more demoralized. Now there is an even more imperative need to bond together even more and get out of this place. And i am even more than determined and confident that i can pass my test, even if it means having weekends burned and more physical training.

I just learnt something despicable about you. I wondered what happened to you- each time we meet we seem to hide more and more from each other. You know I can see through you the same way I know you can read me well yet we still continue to conceal the details from each other. Both of us are the most open people and yet we use many truths to cover the many lies that we have as well. How ironic? Perhaps we prefer to deceive each other to preserve our relationship, but the cracks will soon widen and then what?

Stop trying to read in between the lines, i speak in riddles such that only the person whom i am directing can understand. So too bad for you, if you were trying to fish out anything from my life. Why don't you do something more constructive for the time being like studying? School terms are starting soon and some have to take exams as well.

523

2010-06-20T02:26:00.000-07:00

1st 3 days felt like 3 months already, especially when you have inefficiency and redundancy frequently. These people do not know how to think, only know how to talk lots without using their brains. Sigh, but else where could have been not any better. At least when these 3 months are over, i might just be grateful for the strict regimental way of life there.

Gosh, i really ought to cut down on all these complaining. Every time i am out with my friends, nothing but comparing and complaining our miserable lives. We are complaining to each other everyday and yet we still never run out of misery to complain. I think everyone else is feeling a bit bored and tired of all these complaining.

On a lighter note, i managed to catch Toy Story 3!!!. I had to take a cab to the cinema just to ensure that i do not miss anything much of the show. And thankfully i got to the cinema just where the show started. Cool show, really reminded me of my childhood and growing up. I also felt that this show was more geared towards my generation instead of the young batch of children, considering my generation was the one where they had the previous two sequel.

Go catch this show, it is not as childish as it appears to be. In fact, pixar films are getting more and more matured to suit the adult parents who are watching with their children. It might have been slightly overdone, considering some kids may not truly appreciate the underlying storyline the movie was showing.

521

2010-06-13T01:55:00.000-07:00

For better or for worse I am not sure yet. I am still stuck in that same place for another 3 more months in that dreadful vocation that everyone is praying to escape from. Everyone aboard this damn boat is pretty much unenthusiastic as everyone else. My only consolation for getting into this vocation- for the remaining of us that was unlucky enough to be staying- we get to stay together as a section. Yup, same old people with a bit of new friends and environment.

What is the worst that could happen? 4 X out field (again, sigh) and having to stay back every Saturday till i get to pass my SOC. I will get over enough, eventually. Others, i am not too sure. That double blow they received on that day of the posting was pretty bad, but at least we have each other to suffer together.

As for that night, hopefully, all misery is already spilled out. Definitely gone a bit too wild but consider it as me returning the favor. The total number of hours we spent together was pretty long for a bonding session. Getting to know the real you, when you are not really yourself that night. Interesting, but i don't really want to do it again.

509

2010-05-28T21:44:00.000-07:00

The week in camp was shortened because of Vesak day celebrations and nights out after UO exercise and never did the week feel so fast before. I managed to catch Shrek Forever after during that nights out which i found was acceptably entertaining enough as compared to its third part, though i found the first Shrek Movie was still the best. Still the "what-if? " concept introduced in the movie was intriguing enough, to be reused for the mundane and boring NE presentation we are obliged to do.

If you wondered how the other free time are spent in camp, allow me to be informative of my routine during free time. We have bridging session, which i often win because i always went for like 3-4 no trump with 3-4 aces and following sets in my hands. Then there is newspaper reading. Usually you start of with the comic sessions in the life section and then you cover the rest of the life section. But you see, sometimes there is so much free time, you can afford to cover other sections as well, my favorites since young has always been the complaint-filled section, mainly insights, forums and reviews. It is damn entertaining to see how these writers sometimes commit themselves to certain unforgivable fallacies. You get a funny oxymoron at times like incomplete all-rounders.

Anyway, its because of these free time that i become more socially aware of the state of the world today. I bet i am even more aware of these current affairs that my other peers who are out there working or studying or idling their time away. I know of the current bilateral relationship developments between us and our neighbours, the current and fragile state of thailand, the increasing intense war of words between the two korean countries, the scent of that oil spill and its clean-up.

Like I am preparing for a GP exam already.

Speaking of the N/S Korean issue, I had this S.Korean bunkmate of mine and he can be seen really patriotic about his country , checking on the news daily and sharing his hatred as well as anxiety especially when war may just be about to break out anytime soon. Shows that he really do care for his country, something that we guys are supposed to be taught with.

If you, my Korean friend, are reading this, i must say you are of the most polite and caring friend i have ever known. Especially during last night when i was kind of all over the place, i thank you for putting up with all the trouble i am causing. I was grateful you didn't just leave me in deep shit at the place like what your other friends might have done. Salute you man.

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2010-05-22T21:05:00.001-07:00

A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetrable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heart, speaks and acts against his feelings.

Jean de La Bruyere, 1645-1696

From the 48 laws of power.

Life is damn dangerous these days and it is only to get even more so. The threat of losing weekends is so common and I have had too many of those experiences already. I can't afford to be that lucky all the time to escape scott-free. Actually i am not too sure if I should consider myself lucky/unfortunate- unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person or objects, but lucky enough to left ignored all the time.

Three more weeks left to play the perfect courtier and perhaps maybe a lifetime career as a modern courtier in the competitive working society.

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2010-04-15T18:55:00.001-07:00

I went for interview for law yesterday and it is so not how i expected it will to be. Apparently different faculties have different ways of conducting their interview- business, by having a group of 8 discussion over a random article; Social science, by having a two to one interview about your passion and interest.

Law-rush through a 15 min essay with two topics to choose from:

1. Some lives deserve death. Some die deserves life. Can you just give it to them? Should we deal out death simply for the sake of justice and out of our own safety?

2. Task without vision is drudgery,

vision without task is a dream,

but task with vision can give you success and happiness in life. Discuss.

I was so stunned by both questions and to make matters worse the person beside me started writing straight away upon seeing the question. Took me a while to recollect my thoughts and to pen down my points on that essay and i didn't even finish till the end of the bottom of the first page when they said time's out. That's quite bad, cause what i wrote is not even like half the length of a A4 paper.

After which, we were grouped into groups of three. Thank god i met my bunk mate there and we got to go into the same interview group. The interview took in the form of a mini-debate. One person for a case for allowing performance enhancing drugs to be allowed in sports, the other against and the last person to be the judge. I was really thankful that i got to bring out most of my points cause my opponents kept getting interjected all the time that she didn't manage to finish her rebuttal and move on to her points. Oh, by the way, being the judge sucks cause you don't really have a point yourself and it is a bit difficult for you to shine in that interview.

That took about like 25 mins with lots of digressing to ginseng and F1 races and then it was over. Pretty fast interview. Started at 0815 and the whole thing ended before 0930.

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2010-03-21T02:05:00.000-07:00

I had lunch with Jean, Elicia and ELMO yesterday at NYDC!!!

If you cant have all off it on the menu, you take a photograph of it instead!!!

Shopping spree!!!

Jean thinks her photo timings were really good..

After Lunch, we ended up having a book hunt at Bras Basah Shopping complex. There are several second hand book stores there run by mostly Indians that sells old-school books that you read when you are a child, like goosebumps, animorphs .etc I was actually looking for a book on chess, really difficult to find and end up looking for old graphic novels, so old that the pages are turning yellow. But in the end, my attention landed in a shop that specifically sells books on fashion, designing, interior designing, architecture, manga drawing, animation and everything else on art. Super cool shop for learning art concepts and getting inspiration.

I got this book that has a 1000 over web design layouts. And there was apparently two of it left when i got it, one that was browsed through by a lot of people and one brand new one. I got the the brand new one whereas there was this person who had already been standing there very long only managed to got the less new one.

Need to finish at least 20 personal projects by myself for my portfolio by the end of this year and i not too sure if i have the time to do so. But at least i am already on my first!!! wooo!!!

2 more weeks and i will be through!!!! At least without all the major events there is more personal time now, i even got time to draw now!!!

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2010-03-06T18:19:00.000-08:00

I am not some PSC scholar or something. I got a D for my economics, so my results aren't as fantastic as some would make it up to be.

On a happier note, at least I feel more enlightened with my future now that I am certain what i want to pursue already. I have decided to go back to the field of art and designing again. I know it is pointless to have studied like 12 years on science, math and language and then suddenly pursue a career that is totally mutually exclusive of all these subjects. But I decided not to waste whatever creativity that is left off me and pursue the typically, pragmatic courses like business and engineering.

I am trying to aim for NTU's Bachelor of Fine Arts, either their photography and digital imaging or their product designing. Alternatively I also set my sights for NUS's industrial designing as well. No portfolio yet, so i decided to only apply for it next year and use this year to create and collaborate whatever materials i need for my portfolio. ( that is the advantage of being a guy, you get to apply this year, next year and maybe the year after...)

In the meantime, i shall try apply for psychology and something else though i am still not very sure what that something else might be.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for musical notes

Poe wrote on both of them

They both have inky quills ("inkwell")

Bills and tales(tails) are their common characteristics

Because they both stand on legs, conceal their steels ("steals"), and ought to be make to shut up

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2010-03-05T17:58:00.000-08:00

why is a raven like a writing desk.. you know, i think i can guess that one..

You mean you think you know the answer?

Yes

Well then, you should say what you mean!!

i do- i mean, i mean what i say- it's the same thing...

it's not the same thing at all! You might as well say "i eat what i see" is the same as " i see what i eat"

You might as well say "i like what i get" is the same as "i get what i like"

You might as well say "i breathe when i sleep" is the same as "i sleep when i breathe" (sleeptalking)

It IS the same with you!!!

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2010-02-26T19:36:00.000-08:00

If you are still living in your own personal bubble, results to be out on the 5 of march, Friday. Confirmed, chopped and stamped. Cause firstly, someone went to call up MOE, and secondly, I am being released from camp this Friday just to collect my results and then book in soon after for my remedial training.

My batch is not so lucky after all. The holiday break we had from Chinese New Year is slowly taken back from our weekends. I book out for less than 24 hours and i have to book in already. If it isn't for the collection of results, i might as well stay in camp.

Then again better not. I am not very updated with the current happenings so far. Not just politics and current affairs but like more on music, movies and whatever buzz that is happening. Always wondered what everyone else is doing now, given that we do not need to study. So much to catch up yet so little time.

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2010-02-20T06:24:00.000-08:00

My hearing has gotten more haywire after returning back to civilian life. Everytime when i am all quiet and silent, i can hear the timing of the marching left right left, platoon diam .etc resonating in my ear. Going nuts already.

Booking in damn soon already. Come out, 24 hours later must book in and i dont know when is the next time i will be book out. Seriously, field camp is coming soon and i might get confined.

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2010-02-07T03:58:00.000-08:00

If you came to my blog while i am in NS thinking that i will still blog. You are damn freaking right.

we are the new e learning batch to be given laptops to "learn" lessons of the military life. Apparently you also get to go online and do your own net surfing by ourselves.

Anyway, i will be out on the 12th of feb!!! yes, five more days down.

Have to rest at for IPPT tomorrow which i think i will end up failing (and failing means one weekend taken for remedial training)

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2010-02-03T02:21:00.000-08:00

Couple of things i need to settle online first before i enlist in around 20 hours plus plus time:

1) I do not know what's up with MSN these days, but apparently random people are adding me online. If you added me, but for some reason i forget who are you, please have the decency to tell me your identity instead of changing the subject all the time. I get all kinds of webcam stalkers, and horny people, so please distinguish yourselves from these anonymous losers.

2) Please be expecting a "who are you" if you are messaging or call me on my phone. In the midst of swapping phones, my brother deleted most of my contacts. These contacts lost are mostly the people whom i met for the last past two years or who changed their numbers within the last two years or so.

3) I do not know when i will be out, but if my in-charge needs to go back early for his valentine's day with his someone special, then i might book out on 13 feb. But if my in-charge just got rejected or dumped, and decides to take it out on us, then maybe 14 feb night then i will be out. Anyway you can text me or something.

4)I am only going in with my set of batteries. =( so i really really really need to conserve electricity. When you call me, please talk very fast and precise to avoid wasting time as well. keep it short, can always talk more on another day or when i book out. Alternatively, i can take my roommates phone.

5) yes, i will miss you. And i know you love me.

6) stop asking me to miss you.

7) stop saying you love me

Alright, need to pack my stuffs and settle other personal agendas. I said enough goodbyes today already but i still going to say one more goodbye on this blog.

See you, in the year of the tiger. That's if i don't get eaten up by one in the jungle first.

449

2010-01-29T05:47:00.000-08:00

Why do some people say the most important thing in life is to be happy?

Cause you either choose to live life happily or live life sadly, which do you prefer?

That is assuming that the opposite of happy is sad and that happiness is better than sorrow. But is happiness truly the opposite of sadness? If happiness is simply the state of experiencing pleasure, then antagonistic to this, it will be that absence of pleasure itself. But sadness is not just about the absence of pleasure, it is experiencing emotional pain and sorrow. Both happiness and sadness need not be mutually exclusive and opposite of each other.

You mean we can be happy and sad at the same time?

Why not? In instances, where our happiness is obtained as a result of some personal sacrifice; pyrrhic victories in life. How would you feel then? Paradoxical? Conflicting emotionally? That is because you are feeling both happy and sad at the same time. Something which your heart is not trained to do because it is assumed to be mutually exclusive of each other. The contradicting feeling could also arise because you want to choose only to have one of the feeling at that time. But you see happiness and sadness can sometimes be present at the same time in our life.

Still, do you prefer to have happiness in your life than sorrow? you have yet to answer my question.

Now comes the second assumption that everyone has, is happiness necessary better off than sadness? Being happy is good, for it is a positive way of living life. But being too happy with your life means stagnation as well. The constant satisfaction may result in unwillingness to improve your current standard of life, removing progress in your life. Conversely, being in a state of sorrow may stimulate some sort of desire for a more positive way of life. Low self-esteem may force a person to seek some sort of improvement in life to lead a better life that way.

So would you still prefer to live life happily or sadly?

Interestingly to say, i would live them both. That way i get the best out of both world. Anyway back to the very first question, I do not think happiness should be considered as the most important thing in life for its value is grossly overestimated. What happen if your happiness is classified as Schadenfreude (that is pleasure gain from others misfortune). Or that happiness like in the concept of utilitarian (maximizing the amount of happiness felt) is done at the expenses of the minorities? Or conscience is betrayed, like in the case of white lies? Living a happy life because of ignorance need not be a blessing as well when the lack of knowledge can eventually result in sorrow.

Sign, life is not that simple at all.

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2010-01-26T00:11:00.000-08:00

I have lots to say. But apparently, not being in school, attending GP lessons has had somewhat reduced my writing capabilities. Oh damn, the signs of not studying.

On a side note, I have been learning adobe photoshop lately. Not just editing awful photos of each other but learning a bit of graphic designing as well. Hopefully, that will expand my scope in art.

439

2010-01-21T18:42:00.000-08:00

i so always want to do this

eh jj, you have no rife!!!

What do you mean no rife?!? What about you? Staying at home the entire day!!

Hey, i went out for the past two days!!

Then i too went out for the past two days. I am you. We are one together.

ya whatever.

without,me your subconscious self, you have none of your whatever of those psychic incidents that you experienced. I am your intuition which you relied heavily upon

ya right, subconscious self when i am consciously awake!!

Mother: who are you talking to???

=P

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2010-01-17T23:54:00.000-08:00

Ngee Ann Poly Open House, School of Humanities- psychology section

Our new Chill spot at Mandarin Gallery.

Beam me up!!!

How do you think these three pictures were taken?? The first is obviously an optical illusion. The other two at Mandarin Gallery obviously demands some kind of height elevation to get that type of angle and at the same time you wonder what are those weird floating stuffs at the top of the picture.
Those are air vents!!

So how was the first picture done??
Well the chair is not a proper chair at all. It is divided into two parts, with the part i am sitting on placed on the floor further away from the lower part of the chair. All the photographer needs to do is angle himself properly, such that the two parts fits back to look like a chair again.

As for the other two, here is what the original photographes looked like:

Both inverted, thats because what you are looking at is our reflection on the ceiling. Mandarin's Gallery's Ceiling is mirror coated, hence this explains the air vents at the top of the photograph.

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2010-01-09T02:23:00.000-08:00

Squad Outing on the 7th of January, Vivocity

We were sent to the outdoor playground as we waited for the rest of the girls to get back from their "toliet" trip. Going to the ladies doesnt involve such a big group of girls as well as going in to check on each other.

We gave up waiting and decided to find a place to eat.

Deciding where to locate ourselves as we settle down for steamboat.

Apparently some people dont look very pleased with their sitting arrangement. (boy, the fun of adding captions to mislead people)

Keng chong has finally decided to go into balloon sculpturing and be a clown. He says being a clown is more flexible than being a magician. But i just think the magic industry has gone poof.

A balloon sculpturing session demonstration by kc.

The end result: an Elmo (the Nigger lips edition)

It was kind of them to have a cake to celebrate my belated birthday and Muqin's birthday in advance.

Making a birthday wish...

wishing for world peace!!

Blowing out of the candle flame

A group photo at the steamboat place.

ARGHHHHH, its the Its alvin and chipmunks!!! The horror as they pose beside them.

Another Balloon scuplturing sesssion outside the steamboat place.

This time a flower!!

And a heart frame with a koala attached to it.

Apparently, the false "toliet" trip was to get photo and a mini pinboard for the guys.

The remake of the star wars scene in the third episode.

taking pictures with the First World Hotel at the back.(Singapore version) You wonder where is the big shopping centre to the First World Hotel?? Its at Vivocity!!!

A final group photo

Its already two years plus since we pass out as a squad and yet we have so much to talk about everytime we meet up. (Which is like twice every year) Hopefully, the quantity of topics for conversation stays the same or increase everytime we meet up. Probably the next time we meet up , the guys will be all bald and we probably have Npcc-like experience in NS to talk about.

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2010-01-03T09:55:00.000-08:00

Next recent Highlight: My Birthday and ice skating session.

A Delifrance Breakfast buffet for breakfast, and linh was pretty disappointed when he learned Delifrance is not orginated from France but from Singapore. France doesnt even have a Delifrance outlet.

And we set off for Kallang.

Jurong's Fuji Ice Palace has closed down for upgrading to an olympic size ice rink since dont know when and has yet to complete its upgrading. Therefore we went to Leisure Park at Kallang to Ice skate.

It is Ryan's first time Ice skating and he is already nervous about it.

I actually forgot how to ice skate, and it took me a while to get back to this level of confidence.

And here is our very own Percy the Pig on Ice!!!

Cold dish appetitizer: pigs throtters serving you cold.

Ryan is a fast learner.

Though he needs some help at first.

or not. Pig's finger in the camera. Too fat already.

Ryan at the back...

trying to dance??

moving on..

too fast too furious

taking a picture with today's cold dish

before devouring her!!

group photo

Leaving the place and off to see Ryan shave bald.

Ryan: i dont want to shave!!

Ryan: so fast my turn

the before shot as a memory and as a comparison.

and.

bald.

souvenior.

Thank you all for wishing me a happy birthday and for those that made it very special for me.

YES Jean, for being the first person to wish

Linh, for being the first person i meet, not even my parents saw me yet

Ryan for shaving to give me a personal satisifaction

and for treating dinner.

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2010-01-03T08:54:00.000-08:00

Recent Highlights: New Years Eve Countdown (outing)
Caught Sherlock Holmes the movie which is definitely a worthwhile watch. Very intellectually discriminating though, hence not the type of movie everyone will enjoy. If you didnt understand/enjoy the Prestige. I am sorry, this is not the movie for you. Apparently only my row of people truly was enjoying and laughing in the show, i think the rest of the audience were falling asleep.

After the movie, we went to Somerset 313 to do some shopping. Actually linh wants to get an orange sweater from Uniqlo; the same green sweater i am wearing, except orange.

No stock left at Somerset 313 outlet and hence we decided to take a train down to Orchard Ion and try their Uniqlo outlet there.

The photographer himself trying to get a picture of himself.

Our modern day assassin creed. Wearing a Uniqlo sweater as well. (grey colour)

The funny thing is that the group got splitted up in the station. one half of the group waited for the other, only to learn that they boarded the train already.

Again, no stock left. No other colours left except green and grey. Both which Alex and I are wearing.

taking the stairway out to heaven.

Chilling at Lido till it is time. that was like 5 plus.

No rife. Playing psp on an outing.

On a very depressing note. See that guy in black at the background of the photo. He was very sad and lonely. He kept eating his Long John Silver for like the entire 2 hours plus we were there, alone. This is what is like when you have to work alone as well.

Dinner at Aston's and then its was off to the countdown. I tell you. It was so packed at Marina that we kept walking

and walking

from one end of the Singapore River to the other end of the Singapore River.

Thats because the roads were barricaded. Underpass were blocked to esplanade. The padang was muddy. So we had no choice but to walk till to the Singapore River Bridge and catch a spectacular fireworks. (actually it is just john and linh who wants to go to Brewerkzs at Clarke Quay, hence the journey to the pub)

But what really made my New Year was this heated argument between an old man who got spread by party soap foams and the group of ignorant chinese speaking youngsters. Damn awkward when they stared so hard at each other and everyone around were cheering and screaming at the fireworks.

What happens after that was a big blur.

Meet up at Brewerkz. Handshake with the people there, and wishing each other happy new year.Getting dissolved in the crowd. Saw some Cj people having issues and troubles with themselves.

Then erm, the bus card EXPIRES and i overgeneralise that all buses operate till 2am. No bus home!! Took a train which cost $1.70 and walk home from the train station.

And from that stroke of midnight, everyone suddenly officially became adults. Adult Fare for bus rides!!

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2010-01-01T09:43:00.000-08:00

For some reasons, the last post which was dated back then last year was numbered the same twice-401 and i am pondering over the strange wonders of how my brain was operating when i was entitling that post with numbers.

It has been like nearly two years since i began numbering my post and for those who fail to see the reason or pattern behind those numbers, well there isnt really a reason or pattern behind it. You see, those numbers were prime numbers; except for the first time i ever numbered my post. Credits must go to the author of the curious incident of the dog in the night time, where the protagonist himself numbered his chapters according to prime numbers just to be unique.

But for myself, (i am not quite sure of Mark Haddon), prime numbers were choosen because it represented the unpredictability in life. No doubt there may be divine intervention just like there are dozen of complicated complex formulas to prime number. Yet there are simply too many unknown variables or twists in forthcoming events to come that leave us in the hands of fate itself.

The pre-university years have indeed been a wild and unpredictable ride. Acquaintances formed, friendship forged. while some bonds were dissolved and faded away waiting to be rekindled like some did (or never did) Wars and battles won, some with pyrrhic victory, others with a disappointing defeat that only drives to do better. Gossips spread and secrets shared.

Whatever it is, 2009 has been eventful (shocking i must add) and I have a feeling 2010 is going to be even more eventful. Everything is still as unpredictable as before (which is why i decided to continue numbering my post in primes) and i guess only time will tell of forthcoming events to come.

Watch this space develops this new year, as i try (hopefully) to post more often than before, now that life is freed from studies. And its not about NS bitching that i will be doing, so prehaps some other blog if you are interested in that. In fact i never really show my emotions or strong detest online, where that person or whom it may concern can easily have access to. I simply dont blog about stuffs that boils my blood.

Have a good year ahead, and hoped yours started pretty interestingly like mine did.
Some incidents really made my new year. =X
True enough
something interesting just happened, going to attend to it now!

401

2009-08-08T21:52:00.000-07:00

Weird it may be, but no right do i have to judge. For what did thee wasnt incorrect moral nor ethically. It had yet thou art on me and no justification is there enough to avoid thee. Blessed thou art those who bear ignorance and wilt i not bother to found out more, for fear the same fate of peeking into a pandora's box.

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2009-08-02T02:50:00.000-07:00

The movie sequel Matrix presents us a very pausible and sceptical doubt that we might be victims of a whole scale of illusion like that allegory of Plato's cave. In the film, the hero Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, was spared the indignity of having no body. He thought he was living in the real world when,in fact, his brain was simply being fed information to present that illusion. In reality, he was in a pod,immersed in a kind of amniotic fluid.

Is the world we live in just a figment of our imagination?

The reality of the physical world can be doubted as there being a higher power that fools us into believing that false is obviously true. We may see it as obvious and self evident that seven follows after six, but to a person under hypnosis , he can be made to think that it is obvious and self evident that eight follows after six. What if there is a really a higher power making us believe whatever false to be obviously true like that of a person under hypnosis?

The claim that we feel physical pain only strengthen, not weakened, the claim that reality is only a figment of our imagination. We could be programmed right from the start to feel this physical pain we get when someone punch us in the face- that of the same scenario in the movie Matrix. In fact we simply accept everything that life present us at face value-accept uncritically received wisdom and the only way to escape from this ordinary illusion is through sacred drugs or practice meditation. For all we know, those whom we cast off as insane or mad could be the ones who truly freed themselves from this illusionary reality that we all lived in. Of course that would come with the question as to how we can distinguish deluded fools who have madworld view from those who genuinely discovered an unseen dimension of life that has eluded us.

If the world really is just a figment of our imagination, then arent our lives nothing more than dreams? After all, the phenomenon of false awakening is possible, so how do we know when have we really woke up from our dreams? Some may argue that dreams are more fractured and disjointed while reality is unravelling slow and consistent. But we may also get so more recognition of the events happening in our dreams than in reality. We can also be equally convinced that dreams is not fractured and disjointed that it actually makes sense. In fact, our conscious self could be the dream we are living in and that we are only truly living in our dreams when we sleep.

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2009-08-01T03:57:00.000-07:00

Recall your familiar thought scenario that was often used to teach us ethical lessons:
Suppose you are nearby a rail and a train is about head for a group of 20 miners working at one end of the rail. They cannot be informed in time before the train hits them but there is a switch for the track to set the train on another course that would hit another group of 5 kids playing on the track. We isolate all other possible ways to salvage the situation and assume that its either to save the miners and let the train over the kids or not to interfere with the events that is about to happen.

kill or let die?

No doubt any moral and responsible person will make an intuitive decision that the train should be set in the course away from the 20 miners to prevent more people from dying. Yet interestingly others can agrue who are we to play god in deciding who to die when? We should try to save lives but not at the expenses of taking others. If we would to justify that killing should be done in order to save more, then we are on a dangerous slippery slope, diverting us from the course of humanity.

Then again we are not really playing the role of god, but rather a task and important decision is entrusted to us by chance. So the question does not lie whether we switch the tracks or not but rather whether we should be held responsible even for choosing not to swtich the track- to let die. After all isnt it true that we are equally responsible for the things we are capable of but did not do as to what we actually did? Suppose i know you are about to consume a cup of poison. Am i as equally responsible for your death when i choose not to tell you that you are trying poison as opposed to encouraging you to consume that cup of poison? Should a person be responsible for not stopping a girl when he was right beside her when she was about to walk across a road? Should we be equally responsible for not switching the track as opposed to switching it?

These questions were asked under the basic and common underlying assumption that to let die is as good as killing. But when the distinction between killing and letting die blurs, more moral conflicts arise from it. If letting someone die is as good as killing, then it becomes increasing to debate against euthanasia. Less obvious but more striking, are we not responsible for the death of children in developing countries when we can simplely contribute the basic amenities and medicine without much cost?

With the distinction between killing and letting die, its already so difficult and unreasonable to make a decision. But with the distinction between killing and letting die blurred, we inherit more dilemma.

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2009-07-17T22:43:00.000-07:00

I managed to catch harry potter yesterday!! =P I found it much better than the previous movie to this sequel, so much better. Movie was pretty accurate this time right, but despite the anti-climax movie i still found it an enjoyable one. Though the reviews are saying otherwise because people who do not follow the book closely may not understand it. Not too sure how you guys will find the movie but go ahead give the movie a try. Watch it like on weekdays, six dollars only, CHEAP. And go to lido to watch, no need to compete with all the kiasi singaporean kids who rushed all the way to cathay or plaza sing to join the long queue. Those losers!

i also finally got my pair of Braziliano Praia slippers after like an hour or so of walking around Orchard road. =) I got a brown/chocolate pair which is like kind of old stock as it was like the only pair left for my size and i cannot find any picture of it on the internet.

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2009-07-14T07:11:00.000-07:00

School didnt feel as if it started officially yet. And its already a week since school started, maybe there is no morning assembly or it just seem really slack now.

Like how today i only attended one and a half lesson of school when its a long day for me. (school ended at 4 for me today) Thats because of the sales of the French food for the Youth Olympic games which i had to manage for the whole day as the dear IC of the event wasnt present. Apparently our partner school for the youth olympic games is a French school, hence a need to foster some French atmosphere and understanding first. The latter part,of course,wasnt well done because we have yet to pin up all the information of the French yet.

But when it comes to the food sales i must say it was pretty successful. I was really worried that there will be lots of Quiche as leftover but we managed to sell most of it though there was about six pieces left. In total, we managed to earn a revenue of 400 plus with a profit of 310 plus, quite a good response.

On a lighter note this week, people are starting to return back to school from their quarantine and i got back most of my results. A general improve across my subjects though i have yet to confirm what i got for math. I just barely scrap past a B and an A for Econs and Physics respectively. (i think).

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2009-07-09T06:40:00.000-07:00

On a heavier note, please take care of your health people. Keep your immunity system strong to resist the virus flying around. Avoid crowded places and if possible- gathering, so no more clubbing for now.

and to you, Mathias. Stay strong, you must recover because there are many people who are already aware of your condition and praying really hard for you.

You will be welcomed back like a hero when you finally return school and you have to make sure you can experience that welcome.

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2009-06-11T06:53:00.000-07:00

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2009-05-26T03:25:00.000-07:00

today concludes the end of the SPA. Totally. Never ever need to step into the science lab block ever again.

No more anal shit when it comes to SPA. Like how my teacher dotted my sand when i didnt dot them on my paper.

Hopefully, my timetable will be 4 hours short when i come back next term.

by the way, everyone in school is still looking so carefree even though H1 paper is two days time and GP is end of the week.

Anyway i am crashing the school tomorrow to study for my GP exams.

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2009-05-20T04:07:00.000-07:00

Think Career's Day today.

Strategically planned to mess up our mind even more about our career choices because all the careers offered are just so tempting and interesting. With the exception of the engineering talk which i totally regretted attending, most of the talks actually arouse my interest in that particular field of studies. Architecture, business/entrepreneurship, faculty of social science. Made me feel like being a jack of all trade and of course a master of none

Doesnt this feel like what it was like back then in secondary four when we are pursuing our O level's? Like whether to consider polytechnic and junior college? thankfully i have the two years in NS to ponder on my career options before coming to a final conclusion. Right now its more important to deal with the short term problems- mid years.

Have yet to settle down completely yet.

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2009-03-29T02:52:00.000-07:00

My last day of the march holidays were spent with my previous squad in secondary school. With the day marked with a double rainbow- indicating double the colours added to my life ahead.

Outing at vivocity rooftop where we chill out...

with a little bit of alcoholic fun

and of course a special birthday celebration surprise for our upcoming birthday boys (and girl)

the difference between the two photos? well we actually HAD to walk closer to the camera cause the person who took the camera didnt want to move.

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and we got welcomed back to another hectic and chaotic school term with horrible common test results. Word had it that we are getting too complacent, arrogant and indifferent when it comes to our attitude of learning. Cross reference to other classes and we realised it was a well rehearsed reused speech.

Put aside common test results and it isnt that bad when these guys are around.

we got really bored during the checking of our scripts that we decided to take photos instead. Courtesy of Alex Heng

FAILURE in acting cool. damn spoiled.

Ryan keeps on calling us the F4, some korean boy clique from some Tv series. Honestly, i think everyone hates us.

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With the first week nearing its end, there was so much to do for Alfresco. The advertisement, the technical, the rehearsal, the list goes on and thankfully it was over already.i feel one more step out of council already.

acoustic performance during the event

an unplanned performance by Bjorn himself. It is his virgin performance, at least they all say.

And we made use of Alfresco to celebrate our very own president's birthday. We got him a birthday card which was done in a really sloppy and cheapskate manner by yours truly. The card was like some French flag to go in lieu with alfresco.

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Saturday was spent at Aston's in serangoon gardens. With dessert at Ice3 bar.

your promotors of earth hour

A waffle surprise for birthday boy at Ice3 as we celebrate his birthday and commemorate earth hour at the same time. ( ice3 actually turn off the light for one hour and we were given light sticks during that hour)

and today i actually wasted the whole day organising my photos, playing on the computer and attempting to revise my H3 math which was an epic failure

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2009-03-15T05:45:00.000-07:00

Continued.

Group photo with birthday boy and then its off to NICKELDIME!!!

gossip boys

pandan sake, tasted like the liquid version of your pandan cake

Kudos

and a birthday treat for someone special

john just wanted to have some fun as well

tissue totally make the photo look unglam

gambit

ace- for CLUBbing

gossip girl shot

the difference between the two- shi mun

and finally bottoms up

up on cloud nine

"On the Greenwood avenue, it's easy to think that the world is exactly as it appears. Refined, elegant, imposing... But sometimes, all it takes is a little key to open the door to the wild side.", gossip girl

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2009-03-14T19:50:00.000-07:00

Here is what's written on the invitation card,
" Presenting a Preppy Chic birthday celebration- an exclusive private event hosted by ryan

"hello dear friends, you are cordially invited to my 18th birthday soiree, so be prepared for a night of drinking feasting and partying till the break of dawn. They say, you're only 18 once and my 18th birthday is going to be one celebrated in style , sophistication and class, until we get drunk. Thats a whole 'nother ball game'. As all of you should know, the theme is Preppy Chic, so channel you inner gossip girls and boys everyone! lets have a night of alcohol, scandals and fun. you know you love me.

your host, ryan"

I was laughing out when i read the invitation. Gossip girl wanna-be, so expected of ryan.

jasmine TRYING to act like Blair here. FAILED

MOJITO!!!!damn good, free flow!!!

Yeah!! finally the CLICKers had a group photo shot as a clique. Snaps for the CLICKers. *snap*

The rest of the gang

candle light fine dining experience at Covo Bistro & lounge

Petit Poussin Duck confit with Liver Pate & Red dates

served with pomme puree & sauteed vegetables

Oven Roasted Angus Beef Rump in rasberry vinaigrette reduction

served with pomme puree & sauteed greens.

i had Oven Baked Mulloway with wakame oriental Spice Emulsion

served with pomme puree & sauteed greens

A toast to the birthday boy, which completely blocked off his face

Happy birthday Ry-Ry!!!

The Birthday cake was delicious!!! I liked the cheesecake, though i was having stomach upset then.

After which, we went to Nickeldime which is two stalls down the street to continue drinking and take more unglam and scandalous shots of ourselves.

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2009-03-07T02:06:00.000-08:00

SUCK THAT CHINESE BITCH!!!
I finally beat you, Loser!!!

The E wasnt really fantastic in terms of grades as it is considered as a scrapping through that subject with a pass. Nevertheless the point is, I dont need to worry about having the need to take CLB. Which means no need to speak chinese, like ever, again. Maybe with the exception of using my name, talking to my relatives, playing mahjong and my own religion.

Though the week pass with lots of horrible obstacles, like the mid term test at NUS ( so terrible that Barro had nightmares that same night after he took the test) & the physics test which i didnt have enough time to even look at the last question, the bulk of my worries is not over yet. With so much to cover in like 1 day, i am so doomed.

Even in the midst of all these worries, i kept thinking of all the upcoming parties right after the common tests.

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2009-02-27T19:36:00.000-08:00

Rock- a- pharaoh (pun intended as usual) last night. Having both its good points and its bad points about last night event. Bad side is, i somehow got a little bit deaf after walking too near to the loud speakers last night. Plus, i had watery eyes cause apparently the roof of the audiorium resonanted by the loud noise and chips of paint were snowing down from the roof. It really looked like snow and all the particles gave me watery eyes.

Most of the perfomers were great- really rocked down the place. But the best performance were kept towards the end for the finale item. With the all time -anticipated moshing that took place, it gives the place that rock concert atmosphere. Still, the moshing needs to be stop cause its really dangerous. I got a taste of how scary moshing can get when everyone start jumping around, like atom particles vibrating to break free.

The week ended with a rock concert and this leaves me a week more to common test. Not really much time left to prepare, considering there is still physic CA to prepare for on top of the mid term test for my Math subject. AND there is Alfresco to do ( which has to really be a good event)

Most likely the next time i blog, it will be after CTs

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2009-02-15T00:30:00.000-08:00

J1 orientation was draining and straining enough. But the worst was the aftermath of orientation. The week load of tutorials and lectures that i need to catch up on is tremendous plus the number of tests and spa assignment i need to go through right after orientation is enough to make one lose his sanity.

So glad the week ended without me losing my sanity,despite the fact that J1s are more mad than some of the j2s. Spotted them studying economics in the library on the 3rd day of the week they officially started school. 0.O

My last year valentine's goodie

Relative to last year's valentine's goodie collection, this year's valentine's goodie were less of the tangible possessions so i didnt bother taking a photo of what i collected this year. Nevertheless the time i spend with my friends and peers in college during this V-day and V-day eve is the most sincere and happening one. With the sing along session at the canteen, followed by going high with this year's orientation mass dance. Yeah, sure have fun even though i am single.

And of course the time i spend with my clique from secondary school this valentine's day. My first time of this year actually meeting up with them.

Everyone was present except for Chester, whom i pressume is the only one in the clique having his own private date that's why he couldnt make it.

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2009-01-22T05:02:00.000-08:00

If you are wondering how i coped with my busy life of council, school work, house stuffs and life at NUS well i telling you, i sleep at like almost before ten everyday. Cause pratically when i reached home, i am too shagged and i just fall asleep. Besides i need my rest.

As for my homework and other miscellanous stuffs, i leave them to my breaks, which is not really alot, to complete them.

Pretty hectic month to begin my school term and i am falling ill very easily.
Just cant wait for orientation to be over.

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2009-01-12T03:57:00.000-08:00

I am still not over the fact that how paper can beat rock. (refer to one of the pictures from my previous post) But i have my own version of the flaws of that game itself way before i saw that picture. It was like i am playing scissors,paper, stone with my cousin who is only 3 years old and she beat my scissor with a stone. And so being the biggest sole loser, i questioned her" how on earth is a stone ever going to beat my scissors?"

Yes, scissor cannot cut through rock, but still can a rock really spoil a scissor? Dont tell me you are going to rock the scissor till it falls apart?

She replied because when scissor tried to cut a rock, the scissor will give way. And so i questioned," what if my scissor is made out of rock?" " a knife cannot cut itself, so technically how is a scissor made of rock going to be destroyed by a rock? And how about if i used the scissor to try and drill my way through your rock, does that mean that scissor eventually beat rock?

One simple game will so many retarded and nonsensical flaws. Its just like as much as you want to say water puts out fire, but on the other hand, fire is able to heat and boil your stupid water into steam. Or how oil-bone fire will only get worse if you try to pour water over it.

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2009-01-11T02:42:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was random facts, today is random pictures!!

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2009-01-10T00:21:00.000-08:00

random facts of life:

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
(now you know why people eat lots of ice cream when they are feeling stressed up)

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
(oh shit, i have been brushing my teeth with shit!!)

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
(now you know there is a name for that thingy that ends your shoelaces)

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
(cool stuffs: didnt know there was a symbolic meaning for the shapes)

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
(instead of saying "that word slipped my mind)

2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
(and in case you havent realise, my blog posts are numbered after prime numbers with the exception of the first post for last year which was numbered one)

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
(if only north korea could recreate a man made hurricane..)

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
(that's why they invented ready to be stuck on stamps so that you dont consume too much calories)

A snail can sleep for three years.
( sleeping beauty, i mean sleeping ugly)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
(the main reason for large scale deforestation around the world)

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.
(duh. thanks to their happy meals)

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched".
(thats is also because you dragged the word when you say it)

The human brain is 80% water.
(and i know some people whose brain are 100% empty!!)

Coca-Cola was originally green
(maybe because you put the lime in the coke??)

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
(want to try it?)

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
(you dont need to peel onions while soaking them in water)

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
Kings of hearts doesnt have a moustache, maybe because Charlemagne doesnt have one)

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
(here is the answer cause your calculator will just explode if you key in too much numbers)

In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.
( Now you know where that came from. )

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2009-01-07T06:18:00.000-08:00

Events for the last week of my holidays:

Monday- Toured around Toa payoh as if i never been there before, all for the sake of orientation planning- planning to host an large scale event there.

Tuesday (night)- Ushered a band concert that was held in collaboration with both the symphonic bands from CJC and AJC. As much as the key word was Ushered, ushers did get to enjoy the perfomances as well. Great stuffs, i preferred this time's performance as compared to the one i ushered as year. Crowd response was much better, maybe because of the AJ supporters.

Wednesday ( that's today)- Supposedly have to recee the old police academy and get rashes on my skin just like last year. But unfortunately or rather lucky for me, i overslept and by the time i reached there i had to return to college already.

After lunch, went to NUS to register for next week's lessons. Waited for 1 & 1/2 hour for what? Just to go up to the person and tap a stupid card to ensure that it is working. thankfully, i discovered i can use NUS wireless network on my mobile phone.

Thursday- House meeting tomorrow. Going to re-learn the long forgotten dance moves and do some banners. AND have a supposedly important general meeting which i think is cleaning up of the council room.

Friday- open house!!! Going to walk around with a signboard that says "ask me". Basically you can ask anything about the school. yeah anything, for example school gossips and scandals. i went through the goodie bag already, pretty generious with the freebies i must say. COME down to check it out yourselves.

Saturday- running through a photohunt for orientation and Crashing Ngee Ann polytechnics open house. and maybe giving ulfred a surprise visit at his booth. That's if he has one.

This is a rather unique post i created. Not only was it in past tense, it was also in present and future tense since i covered the past, the present and the future happenings in one post!!! Still it's a pretty boring week ahead.

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2009-01-01T07:23:00.000-08:00

i am supposed to be sleeping now but i cant cause i am having a fun time solving riddles at this website. It's freaking fun, you should try it.
http://riddle2.qwebbusiness.com/

warning: it's only for the freaking smart people. So dont be stupid to be trying it. Be smart about it.

Still, it wasnt as good as the first one. The first one is much more challenging and interesting.
Currently on set 3 level 14.

Evil Necessary Causes A Question. i am afraid that i might forgot my clue so i left it on my site for further reference.

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2009-01-01T00:17:00.000-08:00

A new day to a new year. And a really slutty happy birthday to jasmine!!! She is the first to finally get her licence to do STUPID. Well not that she needed any licence to be stupid, i mean to buy alcohol and enter clubs. WOW she can even get a driver licence and maybe when school starts, you see her drive in to school and parking at the hostel. Pretty hilarious to see one of your friends come driving to school one day while you still walk to school.

Schools start tomorrow but too bad that doesnt apply to JC students!! With more time to do shit and slack around before hell term begins on 12 jan. By the way CJ's open house is on 9th Jan, 1pm. Do come and support us, lots of freebies to get from the booths. Like straw hearts from a particular CCA, not to mention which to protect the innocent. Yeah after you get your O's whether its good or not come down to CJC.

For those who are not taking O's, you can don your old school uniform and pretend that you are a sec 4 and come to the open house and get some freebies. Hah, cheapskate cant imagine someone will do that.

with a new year come new resolution, but why make resolutions when you know some of them are either too generic or unaccomplishible like becoming a much nicer person .etc. So for this year, no resolution!!! Nothing to change. Change is not good sometimes. Cause in the course of changing, you might become someone you might not want to be, you might not notice though.

As for goals, set them more specific. Like Specifically low, so that you can hit them.

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2008-12-31T07:42:00.000-08:00

In a few more minutes, we will enter a new year 2009 and one year closer to the year 2012!!!! Couldnt be any more optimistic on my last post for this year. Nevertheless i had one eventful day today.

Met up with ry-ry to get some stuffs for the slut party. And the slut party has been shifted to the day of my birthday, its like no difference from planning my own birthday party at botanic garden. Just that my 18 birthday is going to be a really slutty one cause we are celebratine slut's belated birthday.

Still i am excited. Ry-ry and i selected a wonderful birthday prezzie for jasmine. Oh man, it is so juicy i think you. Ryan and i liked it so much, and we know jasmine is going to like it as well. Hint: you know you going to like it, jasmine. Ok that was honestly too obvious but hopefully by the time jasmine read this,its either too late or she doesnt get it.

I went to ryan's place after that to prepare for that picnic gathering. I tell you- we baked cupcakes from SCRATCH ok. So stop being so (B)itchy, (pun intented) In the end the cupcakes were still pretty hard, like stone cupcake, oh well it"s the effort that counts. and i prepared the sandwiches!!!, FACT- the tuna taste very nice

Celebration for new year's eve shifted to my grandma's residence after that. My family had a reunion with everyone else in the family. It was something like a Pre- chinese new year celebration cause there was yu sheng prepared and all the food prepared during chinese new year. Cant help it, cause my uncle wont be around during chinese new year, so we decided to have one pre- chinese year celebration.

Another 2 more mins to the new year!! You know my computer locks on 12, so see you next year with a new post!!

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2008-12-27T06:38:00.000-08:00

I am on prison break now that i have completed Heroes season 3 and all the available episodes that gossip girl had to offer. Great stuffs. I rushed through the entire season 1 within 2 days and i am taking it slowly now that i am on season 2. More stuffs to do all of a sudden or maybe because a new year is in a week's time.

If you havent been studying, i think you should. I thought i could handle everything after i celebrate my birthday, but trying to recall everything at that time is probably too late. I just did my own studies on alcohols and phenols and it gave me a real headache. So piece of advice- better prefect what you learnt otherwise it's going to kill BIG time. Time- something which you dont have much off.

and i found a photo of my secondary one class while studying. (more like i found it when i was searching for more foolscap paper) How innocent we looked back then. Everyone looked so young, so pure and totally unaware of what the world is carrying for us back then.

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2008-12-23T21:20:00.000-08:00

The clique raided my house yesterday for a pre christmas party. Party theme was supposed to be a white christmas theme but in the end i think it ended up as a sweet christmas party instead with lots and lots of sweet treats made. We should just change it to a halloween party instead with all the sweet treats.

We had a mini present exchange session. I am buying a present for Eric and Hilda bought a present for me. I got a blue boxer with sharks all over from zara. So cute, at first i thought it was some pyjamas.

Honestly its the first christmas party i had. I am pretty deprived as my family dont really believe in celebrating christmas. No christmas dinner nor present exchange. Just treated it as a holiday for everyone to slack around. Quite sad, no one to sing christmas carol to me, must dl and put in on my blog so that i can listen to it....

Anyway, i told myself that i should study on christmas day, since everyone else will be celebrating christmas. But today when i tried to study, i ended up digressing and watching gossip girl and prison break.

Anyway, wish you guys an early christmas.

I so want to buy myself more comic books..

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2008-12-21T03:26:00.000-08:00

Today, i met nice people along my way to town. I board this bus where the bus captain said hi to everyone who boarded his bus. He is really really super friendly, as he smiles and welcome other people onto his bus and asked them to go and sit down. There was this point where he just stood up and shouted to the rest of the passenger to give up their seats for a senior citizen who boarded his bus. So caring.

and then there was this annoying incident which i will decide not to bitch about since i am trying to post a really positive experience.

Christmas party is catching up on me really fast. With so liitle time and so much to prepare for the party,i am starting to feel abit stressed up already. Like just now, i went shopping for the party with my clique.I had lots of fun which i think was because of my sugar rush or something because Kelmen and i were like laughing alot. Not till he drop a bottle of the tomato sauce for our nachos. I think the phrase" shop till you drop" applies for him.

2 more days to our rendezvous!!!

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2008-12-14T06:22:00.000-08:00

To my exclusive guests:

Please GO CHECK your email and reply as soon as you read this post!!!
It concerns the sake of our christmas party...you know who you are!!!

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2008-12-03T22:58:00.001-08:00

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2008-11-19T06:07:00.000-08:00

i am so elated!!!!
My application for H3 math module at NUS has been accepted!!!! So glad i got the NUS module =)

And today was also food tasting day for the upcoming prom night for the J2. FREE 8 dish course!! sense some jealousy in the air. Well probably the only incentive we get out of all the work we did for prom and i must say the food at Meritus Mandarin quite nice. Well most of the dishes were tasty.

After which the council people went stalking in Taka. Stalking a mystery person, it was damn hilarious and childish for 17 year old people. But its out of fun, seriously.
Window shopped and gone home in the rain..

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2008-11-05T02:54:00.000-08:00

The only two things that kills the momentum of a shopping spree are:
1. you ran out of money to spend
2. your leg couldnt carry you any further

Thats how i kind of ended for my shopping spree. Technically i was shopping at Marina square cause there was some kind of big sale or something. But i kind of got disappointed when i got to Marina square, really nothing really worth to buy plus not a really big sale in fact no sale yet- should have just stayed in town and shop instead of wasting a trip. Nevertheless i bought a long sleeve top from Zara and it just feels good to spend money.

And i thought to myself, since i am already spending money why not just continue to spend money, besides in a prevailing financial crisis to come, the only way to reduce the impact of that crisis is to spend spend spend. Only then can the country's economy recover.

So i went back to Orchard's kinokuniya and got myself 2 Batman graphic novel. The Dark Knight Returns and The Batman: Year One

Havent i told you i want to start a graphic novel collection of batman? Apparently i am starting my collection with the 2 best books from the review and i am so going to collect the remaining 23 graphic novels that they claimed is a must read in the review. Now my next batman graphic novel on my wishlist are "The Killing Joke" and "Arkham Asylum" cant wait for the next time i go shopping again.

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2008-11-03T00:48:00.000-08:00

today's A level general paper was quite difficult i must say. Heard there were lots of phliosophical questions and really loaded and indirect type of questions for the essay part. Comprehension was not much better. The AQ and summary were said to be give away marks while the questions posed for the passage were really uncommon. Testing on the funniest and most perculiar usage of the english language.

This can only mean 2 thing for next year's GP paper. Either damn easy or more difficult than this year.

Anyway, that wasnt the whole point of today, besides the J2 paper. I had my OP and i was kind of demoralised right from the start of the first group's presentation. They were damn prepared, super good with their presentation. But the question posed to everyone was pretty tough i must say. I got a really irrelevant question to my project, it goes like this: You claimed that the government are trying to seek local talents for the stem cell research but what ideas can you think of that the government can used to retain its overseas LOCAL talents in the research field.

I totally talked about foreign talents until the examiner told me that i misread the question.and the first thing that came out of my mouth was moral suasion. Then all the crap and rallies that the government can rely on the persuade our local talents to have a sense of belonging to singapore. And i kind of ended my free response by saying something about the law. I wanted to say legisation but the word law came out before i could even stop it. I suggested placing bonds in our oversea talents so that they are force to contribute to singapore for at least 5 years.

And the rest of my group mates got some questions about my part and etc. like totally not what we expected but we kind of smoked our way through one way or another. Which brings us to the end of PW.

Celebrations with party poppers for the death of PW...

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2008-11-02T05:50:00.001-08:00

i was multitasking just now. Had to touch up on InR, handle my council hiccups, entertain people on MSN and watch episode 7 of gossip girls. Maybe not really multitasking but more of juggling stuffs for the last 2 hours.

All of it is like kind of over for now. Tomorrow will be a really really important day for me. Not just my OP but i have to handle ticket distribution for prom night. Come to think of it, after tomorrow i have nearly,if not, all of my load off my shoulder.

And the fact that i am watching gossip girl interrupted shows that its kind of boring at times or maybe i am just too busy. But honestly, gossip girls is my commercial, my break for the better show out there- heroes season 3, cant wait for the next episode of Heroes.

197

2008-10-26T07:06:00.000-07:00

You remember the time when you first started blogging and it comes down to deciding what shall be your link of your blog? How long did it took for you to just come out with a link?something special but in the end no one will care about because people simply click on links to get to your blog and dont bother even looking at your link after a while.

For jasmine,that was a really difficult task. She wanted something special, something that says WOW. Just something WOW for justmean here. Too bad it is too difficult to decide what is classified as WOW cause WOW is just too vague and generic.

Here's how it started on MSN:

JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
no link yet!
]ia ]ie says:
nolink.blogspot.com
]ia ]ie says:
just-mean.blogspot.com
]ia ]ie says:
gossipgirlsXOXO.blogspot.com
]ia ]ie says:
piakpiak.blogspot.com
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
dont want

At this point, gossipgirlXOXO will really make a very good link as inspired by the show gossipgirls, ryan will definitely love that link.

JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
something more WOW can
]ia ]ie says:
Bowwow
]ia ]ie says:
Awesome.blogspot
]ia ]ie says:
spotblog.blogspot.com
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
no
]ia ]ie says:
secretswithin
]ia ]ie says:
sweettalk
]ia ]ie says:
breadtalk
]ia ]ie says:
haha
]ia ]ie says:
FRESH
]ia ]ie says:
OMG
]ia ]ie says:
i am entertaining myself
]ia ]ie says:
its damn funny
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
i know
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
u seem to be enjoying it
]ia ]ie says:
give me a theme la
]ia ]ie says:
if not the links will become damn random
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
i dont know
]ia ]ie says:
sweetrevenge
]ia ]ie says:
AVENGERS
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
some more

At this point in time, jasmine has already set in mind for sweetrevenge as a link for a blog. She fail to realise how bad that link is as it was created in a process of crapping. After much convincing, jasmine feel that she is a nice and sweet girl and decided not to use sweetrevenge and so the search for a link continues.

]ia ]ie says:
stickyfingers
]ia ]ie says:
expellibox
]ia ]ie says:
coffinclutch
]ia ]ie says:
mysterycapsule
]ia ]ie says:
i think thats quite cool
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
no
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
not what i was looking for
]ia ]ie says:
what are you llooking for?
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
beats me
]ia ]ie says:
feelthebeat
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
no
]ia ]ie says:
JASwannahavefun
]ia ]ie says:
haha
]ia ]ie says:
jasryanJJ!!!
]ia ]ie says:
jasminegolucky
]ia ]ie says:
kissofdeath
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
no
]ia ]ie says:
checkmate
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
no

i gave her a break and let her decide by herself while i go off and jog and when i came back.

]ia ]ie says:
i am back
]ia ]ie says:
where's your blog?
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
dont have
JAS i believe i am the luckiest person on earth. says:
i give up

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2008-10-24T07:10:00.000-07:00

Today is finally J1 graduation ceremony to mark the end of this year. This year sure ended too fast and looking back at this year, it was definitely fun and crap and lots of drama.

i was supposed to take a H3 physic selection test today but decided against it since physics H3 might not be the choice H3 subject that i want to take next year. I dont want to be spending the full year preparing for my A levels together with my H3 so i made up my mind to go for the NUS module for H3 mathematics,just really hope i get that one.

Instead of sitting a test, i went to catch High school musical 3 with Momo, just-mean and ryan. Tickets were sold really fast at PS (means i still havent used my free GV movie ticket) so we turned to Cathay to watch the movie.

The musical was seriously damn random, like suddenly they can just dance. That is still okay but while they are dancing the environment and people can like just change totally so thats like really off. And whats the story of the show?

After which i spent the rest of the evening watching gossip girls on Ryan's laptop till he went off for his dance session.
END of post, END of J1 year. AND i will be seeing everyone next year in J2!

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2008-10-21T01:21:00.000-07:00

I got promoted!!!!!

3As for my science and math subjects
1B for economics
1C for chinese
and 1E for GP

now i just need to settle my project work, mother tongue written paper and what to take for H3.

It sure was fun while it lasted.

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2008-10-15T05:00:00.000-07:00

been a very long while since i last posted.

=)
I feel quite happy today. I was chosen to take a selection test for H3 physics paper!! Now i am just waiting to see if i can qualify for 2 other H3 subjects.

Still very scared of my GP result.

179

2008-09-05T19:09:00.000-07:00

hey people i had a great time with my clique last night.
Dine at V8 cafe at bugis and spotted lots of AMKhubbers look-alike. (there was even this woman that worn a kimono like hell trying to be some geisha)

FREAKS- my shirt said it all

Highlight was when we went off to the night safari to catch some creatures of the night show. A free trip to the real night safari, too bad a bit too late already, all the chinese breed dogs and chiwawas and animals went home to sleep already. Very little night life, still you can die of a claustrophobic death at the stupid alleys of the night safari. But not bad already, did some major reforms and renovation so that it can contain more creatures to roam around.

Went to several stations of the tourist attraction, mostly selling souvenirs for you to take away as momento from the safari trip. All watches selling for 5 dollars, price war plus perfect competition at the souvenirs stands of the safari. But it was a psychological pricing as realised by Eric when he saw the price tags at the watches. (actual price was 12, he felt ripped off)

Next stop was the old time favourite chemical compound that they used to poison the animals when they get too naughty and savage- the ZINC shop. Everyone loves to be like a kangaroo. We all wanna have pouches to put out little babies in it like a kangaroo. so the Safari offers you a chance at the wonderful Zinc shop. Cheap and good, dont like zinc try my initials-Jsquare.

Finally the most attractive and capturing stops, the cages, enclosures,chains and hooks. Sure have the girls hooked onto it as they went around being so captivated by chains and hooks that they want to enslave themselves in like some wild cats.

and here a quote by Junyang the zoo keeper himself.
"the girls totally treat this trip/place like sex; always talking, mocking and laughing at it, BUT never dare to say they want it"

Sure enough they had so much fun hooked onto the chains that the guys left them to have their fun

But the biggest laugh was when our man that said that the girls are always talking about it but never really dare to say they want it decided to buy himself some glasses. He couldnt bring himself to the shop and just purchase the stupid glasses. He needed Eric to buy it for it. And when he realised that it got ripped off by two dollars he rejected the good from Eric

like hell you like just had sex and realised that your partner had aids and cheated you and you just decided not to have sex. The good sold at the safari are like sex- they are non refundable

to finally end off our wonderful trip to the safari, we bought soveneirs for everyone in our clique. Its a friendship band that we are all supposed to wear on our legs as a memento to the wonderful trip at the safari.

173

2008-08-16T20:48:00.000-07:00

Half of yeasterday was devoted to the trip to Bras Basah complex. I was like some fool yesterday, i walk all the way to this building that look like a hawker centre (which was that time Bras Basah complex) and thought that i was walking in the wrong direction, so i reverse and walk all the way to Penisula only to realise that that stupid hawker centre looking building was where i was supposed to go.

Anyway, Bras Basah complex has all the coolest and most retarded stuffs there. Now i know where to get all the really good and cheap art and craft materials from. There are even shops where you can sell your old story books or rent some super old books that you cant find in the library.

But the highlight of the trip to Bras Basah wasnt the Bras Basah Complex, it was the Lee Kong Chian reference Library at the National library of Singapore. There are security checks before you enter the library and you cant bring in your bags. But it is really impressive once you enter. It's one of the ideal library collection ever with tonnes of shelves and super quiet environment. I think that would be one of the most condusice studying environment, you cant even talk and no annoying kids playing catching.

Anyhow my mission there was to retrieve certain lost newspaper articles for my project work. You have to go through their collection of Mircoflims to retrieve whatever newspaper of the certain date. Not only do they have the straits times from way way back before singapore's independance, they have other newspapers from other asian countries.

Once you selected your microfilm of that date you want, you go to this dark room where you use this machine to view the Microflim. Basically, its a projector which projects out the image of the flim kind of something like how they use to project out movie flims in the cinema. It can be quite a headache when you are scroll through all the articles.

After gathering all the pages of the newspaper for the articles, you go to their photocopying room where they help you search the page you want to print and they will basically print the newpaper article out for you. But it is very costly, 60 cents per piece of A4 article- nearly the price it takes to buy the one set of newspaper.

167

2008-08-05T03:47:00.000-07:00

Didnt blog yesterday cause i felt like a pig. Too tired to do anything yesterday.

Anyhow, yesterday my class went to celebrate hungry people's festival at sakae sushi at ps. Everyone didnt eat or ate very little during recess just so that we got extra space in our stomach for the buffet after school. Within 10 mins after we first entered, my table of five guys and one girl mangaged to stack up to approximately 30 plates of sushi. My table monopolised the entire sushi belt since we are the first table to receive the food when they come out from the kitchen. So rest of the tables had to eat whatever we left for them.

It was a eating and laughing session, something that should not be done together since it upsets your stomach badly. We were stuffing food down while taking in lots of air as we laugh out loud. The mascot of sakae sushi kind of represent us when we are close to bursting. There was story of a frog that burst after he kept inflating itself and i think we were like the frog in the story, stufffing till we burst.

After the whole buffet session. we were so bloated that we can only sit there like some log. Seriously pig. We tried to walk back to far east so that we can cut down on our stomach size but it wasnt very helpful. In fact it was torturous, felt like i was a preganant lady walking down orcahrd road.

Had bubble tea. And i told when friends that the pearl remained undigested in your stomach for up to 5 years- everyone stop drinking after that.

oh well that was the hungry people festival- didnt complete my breakfast this morning cause i was still very full, but at least i finally put on some weight.

163

2008-07-28T06:13:00.001-07:00

start of another week.

Didnt die yet, but i felt that my life is shortened very quickly. With chem test piling onto of the tutorials and promo papers. Its exhausting, not a killer cause i dont die so easily.

Plus i am going to have council duty tomorrow. (for once i thought i was today, but counted my lucky stars- duty got pushed back and so i dont need to sing the school atnhem on top of the national anthem.)

thank god, my EOM is nearly there and i did some homework in advanced. In fact i am proud of myself for completing my chinese homework. So rare and ironic for a chinese rap. (Chinese rapper) yo yo yo... =X

i started on maclaurin's theorem so as to give myself some space for later on this week.

157

2008-07-20T07:33:00.000-07:00

I reduced my 2.4 km run from 1230 to 1138 today!!! Actually i should have done that long time ago but i didnt realise it till i ran one extra round for the nafra 2.4 retest and Mr Liu said that i am not pacing my run properly. I have plenty of energy even after i completed 2.4 to run one extra run.

Really have to blame the way i trained myself. I usually run more than 2.4. approximately 3.8 at the same constant speed. That same speed cannot be used to run 2.4.

Anyhow i want to tell you how wicked the dark knight show was. It was freaking good i tell you. I went to watch it with a bunch of totally retarded classmates yesterday. Can meet at 6 but everyone arrive at 7. Ate subway outside the MRT station and totally nonsense all the way. Then we walk up to the cinema. We took like half an hour just to walk up to the cinema.

I think the first movie was like damn good, but the second sequel totally rocked man. Not going to spoil your show till you catch it. But be prepared that it is a long movie(2 and a half hour) and there are lots of "frightening" scenes.

Oh but the poor guy who acted joker died so prehaps the next batman sequeal if there is one might not be as good because there is one less good actor.

151

2008-07-19T01:04:00.000-07:00

i just bust my phone bill overnight planning for today's outing.

It's so stressful to plan for the movie outing because the dark knight movie tickets are selling damn hot. Last night, by the time i checked the seatings for a 750 show this evening there are only three rows off the screen left. The show must be freaking freaking good to have its tickets sold so fast.

By the time i confirm and reconfirm all the details of who's going so that we can book the tickets its already close to midnight. And i totally forgot about credit cards used for online booking so i started panicking.

Too stress already, more stress than doing physics. Anyway, there are ten of us going, it cost ten dollars for the tickets and the movie ends at ten. Plus today is the 19 july. 1+9=10. So we got ten to the power of 4-tentententen!!!!

PTM was a quick one for me. Generally my parents are pleased with my result. Mr kwee is pushing me to work for a h3 subject. Have to be more consistent in what i am doing thats about it.

149

2008-07-11T06:33:00.000-07:00

Today i went back to ZOO-hua Sadendary Zool to collect my graduation ceritficate. Lunchtime, so most of the animals are released from their cages so that they can roam around and hunt each other for food. But the zoo is quite deserted today, either a lot of them escaped from zoo or they eat up each other. It appears that the zoo is investing in a bigger enclosure so that they can keep more animals. Maybe they should invest in Noah's ark so that the animals can survive when there is a flood calamity.

Went back to see if there is any zookeepers that trained me before, didnt meet any of them. Maybe the current batch of animals too barbaric already, eat them up!! =X. Or maybe they have meeting with the overall owner of the zoo- deciding if they should really invest in the Noah's ark cause these few days rain a lot, high chance of flooding.

The zoo security is just tight as ever, didnt want any animals to run out or run in, i guessed. the roads near the zoo have barriars as well !! Built barriers so that the animals wont run across the road and get knocked down by vehicles.

Oh well, so much for the zoo trip that lasted half and hour. Totally wasted 1.1 on the bus trip to and fro from the lousy zoo. At least, i am officially escaped from the zoo already!!

139

2008-07-08T06:40:00.000-07:00

slept at 12 and woke up abruptly in the middle night. Rock and roll on the bed but fail to return back to sleep. Ironically, i wasnt drained and drowsy today. But i think i am having one of the symptom of stress- insomnia.

I got back two of mid years papers. In summary, very disappointing results. It points to the direction that i am deproving. Maybe it is time to cut my ties with neopets. But it is just too difficult. Maybe after playing abit more..

137

2008-07-06T03:05:00.000-07:00

There is no monday blues for this week because tomorrow is youth day!!

Xinyun asked the clique out for a light studying session tomorrow. Keyword was light and source was xinyun. Put them together and the underlying message behind the SMS was, clique let's go chill out and have a social gathering . Because tomorrow's "light" studying session and the sender dont look productive to me. Might as well stay at home and hog on neopets. Thankfully i chionged the entire topic of differientation yesterday.

i won 20 plus dollars out of mahjong today. Havent been winning for a long time, and today i win till i got very tired of winning. Anyway i donating half of my winnings to the college's step up charity drive thing.

and oh my, crisis core: final fantasy VII is the distraction of all distraction i tell you. Usually i get distracted from work by neopets. Now i get distracted from neopets by FFVII. Totally awesome game.

131

2008-07-04T07:41:00.001-07:00

school policies state that no papers should be returned until next tuesday. So i did not get back any papers at all. All i know was i got 16 for my economics case study. I had dreams, but now i think the future looks gloomy for me. =(

Time is really tinking super slowly in CJC, the mentality of people is "we just had the mid years only.." and so everyone is really taking life as it is in school. The canteen had this shield against receptions, i think it also has this stress free zone. Super relaxing. These days i dont even know why am i coming to school, all the time when the teachers are going through papers i am stoning with my F4 crew at the back. Yup F4 stands for failure 4 or fantastic 4.

Maybe reality will speed up next tuesday when we get back our papers.

Anyway, after school we had a floorball workout. It had been a while since i last played floorball and all you can remember is just whack it, see the ball, whack it. My class wanted to get into the round robins for the floorball competition but lost on our first match. (someone walked over us for our first actual match. ) Oh well, the workout was great, didnt really exercise since the preparations of midyear.

127

2008-06-27T22:46:00.000-07:00

Better blog because my viewers are getting bored and started raking up my past posts of years ago to entertain themselves. sorry to disappoint, my past wasnt juicy enough.

last night's birthday party set standards for upcoming birthday bashes. We went to fish & Co. at the glasshouse for our celebration. Paying for the atmosphere instead of the food quality, because there was a live band to entertain us. The environment was good cause it was able to drown out all the nonsense and noise that we can produce.

Anyway i was just as happy as those that celebrated their birthday yesterday. Finally get to do something nasty and enjoyed it. I think someone is looking for revenge but nevertheless its like half a year more. So by then you probably forget about revenge already. But at least we know celebrating at Fish & Co. may not be such a good idea, especially if you are victimised.

113

2008-06-21T06:00:00.000-07:00

Want to die is it??

Two more days and you still have time to blog-hop to check whether people blog. So you think you had study very hard already lah?!! Can pass with flying colours??

Otherwise go study or you will fail and retain and retain till you drop out of JC.

that wasnt a fallacy, it was a fact!

109

2008-06-05T06:08:00.000-07:00

i am back from LTC. My first impression of the campsite when i first got there was terrible. The facilities totally sucks, the high element and low element areas are so pathetic, might as well dont have it. And the food sucks, just putting salt and MSG to make the food tasty. But the bunks were kind of cool, the rooms were double level and my group mates got the upper deck. Five of us,guys,in my group got the upper deck to ourselves. Totally awesome.

It was great to be with my Group Sunshine. They are all a bunch of happy people as the group name suggests and we got along very well. In fact there was no sign of any conflict, everyone in my group is just giving way to one another. While everyone else's cheer were so Rar-Rar, our group cheer is so La-la. Cant help it, we sang song while others brought down the roof of the canteen.

The activities at the high elements and abseiling area were pretty much managable,because i had been exposed to such activities before. It is becoming the permanent Belayer which i found super tiring. After belaying for like 3-4 people, i was super tired. And the belaying job is super demanding, cause my groupmate lives are hanging on my sake. But that was a new experience i guessed.

The rest of the activities were out of camp, problem solving at the quarry hill by the mathematics society, hike to bukit timah hill and WARGH games. WARGH games wasnt really up to my expectation. maybe because my group always lost the mission too fast. But i was mandling with the controls of the gun trying to hack the unlimited lives system. Managed to somehow restart the guns myself and my group mates just started shooting at each other.

At the end of the camp, we had another workshop, but this time to determine what type of leaders we were. There were different catergories of leadership that includes-coordinator, driver, finisher, implementer, monitor-evaluator, orginator, resource investigator and supporter. I am both orginator and resource investigator because both sorces were the same.
Being an orginator means i am the one coming up with all the ideas and inspiration while being resorce investigator is the busybody one-always trying to find ideas elsewhere. in summary, I am just the source for ideas.

We ended the whole LTC, with a closing ceremony and prayer session and everyone just left cause we have to be back in school by 730 tmr.

Random word out of the camp: hotdog bun
I found that word vandalised on one of the pillar of the shelter at the submit of the Bukit timah hill. and ever since i had been saying it.

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2008-06-01T08:16:00.000-07:00

quick post before i leave for my group SUNSHINE tomorrow. (yup its name Sunshine to remind everyone to be postive throughout the camp)

Yeah so dont miss me.. I will only be away for like 4 days. Actually the campesite is very near my house, if i ever get homesick i can break out from camp and run home.

Jiayan, i know you want to say i am cheap by lodging and eating off all the camp.. Ya actually i will try to stuff myself with all the food, must not waste food, the people in Africa are thin because they have nothing much to eat.. But i am thin because i dont eat much. So i will try to eat more..(after all i paid for the food already)

Xinyun, It is a week off from bitching from me!! There wont be any more posts to target you as well!! Arent you going to be happy about it?? Hope you dont die too fast in your chemistry yet.

Jianee, i know you very kind!! Must inform me if you really get rewarded for your kind act. Actually a lot of people out there trying to pretend to be pathetic to see who is kind to them, then award them for being kind.

Lingling, dont need to miss me, i bet you are missing someone already.=X

ya and the rest of the clique.. really long time No see thought you MA-DI

Its just four days..

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2008-05-31T07:10:00.000-07:00

I woke up at 11 plus today..had my beauty sleep and so by the time I met up with steph at Toa Payoh it's 1 plus.

Didnt study at all cause i went to clear Stephanie's doubts regarding marginalist principle. Took a long time to finally find a proper analogy to explain the concept behind the marginalist principle and then explain other stuffs and left for the cheerlead competition.

We were late. Or at least we thought we were late cause we thought the whole thing will start at four. And JiaNee the organiser was apologising for being late when Eric appeared forever stuck at novena's mrt station. ( he sent a text saying his train was not moving.....steph suggested that he probably board a train that he was not supposed to board. )

The Primary school category for cheerlead was just the appetitizer. The theme for this year's cheerlead competition was KINDNESS.. and so nearly every group spelled out the word kindness the whole time. Singaporeans really have limited vocabulary... some of the Children are really very cute and hyper but watching them just reminds out little xinyuns running around in front of me doing bimbotic acts..

Then comes the open, Non stunts category.. really crappy performance. Cause the secondary school people are doing nearly the same as what the primary school people are doing except that they are not cute at all. Damn suck really nothing good to say,except that some people can dance and shake really well.

And it was the long waited Open stunt category. Started off with some Football cheerleading team. Most of the cheerleaders for that group was guys, only one girl in the group so they brought cheerlead a name. with Guys as High fliers. I call them the SAF Air force team. They are literally flying all over the place, damn professional. They can flip and turn and do all kinds of stunts. I suspected when the players are not in the football game, they were practising cheerleading. They were so good that subsequent performances were no longer interesting.

This cheerlead competition is definately an eye opener for me. With all the little xinyuns running all over the place, to some human aeroplanes and all that dancing as well.

By the way, we were WINDBREAKERs for this event!!! you know why? cause we are blocking this super big fan.

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2008-05-21T23:16:00.000-07:00

Today's post goes out to all the cartoons that i have had watched as well as the kid in me.. because these two saved me during my GP examinations today. Mass media did not really come up the way i had anticipated it to come up. But i was so fortunate that i watched "Over the hedge" and "Meet the Robinsons" the day right before the examination; cause the topic that was" Do cartoons have value beyond childhood?"Thankfully i had somethings to write about.

AS for the comprehension, it was a bit tougher. With all the use your own words.. And i cannot find points for my summary. Thankfully, i had studied the media to be able to answer the AQ properly. I wondered how is Jiayan.. I hoped the GP paper didnt kill her yet.

Current affairs was a joke. Seriously, Asking about Mas and English premier league. Honestly i do not know who won the league...=X

Right now, its relaxing and celebrations.. No more paper for now!! Haha, sad for H1 papers tomorrow. And Miss Xinyun spoke about how i lacked social awareness because i did not go out with my friends right after the papers. Speaking of social awareness, xinyun is completely UNAWARE that I, being part of her social circle, does 4H2 subjects.

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2008-05-21T00:04:00.000-07:00

A calm before a storm. A day of peaceful study period before the adversaries faced tommorrow.

A couple of hours ago, i had breakfast with my Mum at the railway mall. Met Benedict there, which i kind of expected to meet when i go there today-ironic. The minced meat noodle wasnt up to my expectation- CJC's noodle king serves better meal than that eatery at railway mall.

Anyway, its only a couple of hours, and my brother just came back from school. I was so shocked when i went to open the door for my brother. Time really fly damn fast. I only did a comprehension and played on the computer and my brother came back from school!!. Seriously wasted the first half of the day.

I feel pretty endangered after i saw perivous years' current affair quiz. (or should i say History quiz since its a few years ago) Totally crap,asking questions that have totally no relation with my life. Grrrrrhhh.

and what is this world becoming into?? Every night is so warm and stuffy. The day isnt any better. i kept having the impression that i am melting.At least today, there is some clouds and moisture in the air.

89

2008-05-10T20:39:00.000-07:00

There was a bitch (beach) gathering at sentosa yesterday. I arrived at Sentosa at like 12 plus and there was a like drizzle. Waited for the rest of them till like one thirty. When clique came, they were greeted by a storm standing right in front of them. Sentosa used to have one volcano land or something, then they tore it down. But when the clique came, they was an active volcano with them.. I think my blood pressure rose a lot yesterday.

there was also no sunshine because of you-know-why. Beach gathering and the clique came with nothing to entertain themselves. So we decided to buy a volleyball to play. Intentionally to give it to miss ong so that she can train hard and get into the main team.

We started playing volleyball, or for our case catching ball. Cause no one can really volley the ball properly. Then we had an improper game of touch rugby. I just remembered that you can only pass backwards and no forward passes were allowed. No wonder the game was too easy. Ya then the girls trashed us in captain's ball.. i bet jiayan is smiling to herself when she read this.

And we moved from siloso beach to the villa and crash hilda's Resort. It reminded me of the MTV giving a tour around a celebrity apartment. So glamourmous!! When we took a tour around the apartment, we took a couple of pictures of us messing around in the place.
the wonderful bathtub

your very own bartenders..

THe place even had its own private pool. Totally cool and awesome!!

After a dip into the pool, we ended up dressing up like prisoners. JN is so EXTRA

I dont look like a monk here. Junyang looks more like a monk with his shaved head.

For more pictures, go check up jiayan and jianee's blog for unglamourous shots of themselves in the bathroom.

We left the place at six plus when more of Hilda's relatives came. Totally embarrassing. we are crashing other people's chalet and they are still so welcoming to us. Thanks Hilda!!

Went to vivo to buy something for mother's day. I bought a book and wrote thank you stuffs in it for the small things that my mother did for me. I think the nature of the gift is already overwhelming to touch my mother's heart. Its handwritten and it is written by her son!! I didnt like end of properly with something abit more special like what xinyun kept saying cause i think the effect will be an overkill.

The book is only half filled and she was already moved to tears. Luckily i didnt filled up the enitre book otherwise i will wake up with my house flooded in tears.

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2008-05-05T07:07:00.000-07:00

Hello, i am in the midst of doing lots of stuffs. Studying chemistry, just completed Gp and have to prepare for tomorrow.. FUN! Wee hooo!

I just finished half the prelims paper on chem bonding. The one that xinyun complained how she had to finish within a bloody short period of time because her teacher forced her to do.

quite fun. now i should study atomic structure and go sleep before 11. I need my beauty sleep.

Tomorrow is going to be longer than today, then wednesday will be the longest day. You know why?

cause monday only has six letters, Tuesday has seven and wednesday has nine letters.

and tomorrow has eight letters while today has five letters. So TODAY is the shortest day. Come to think of it i think YESTERDAY is always a longer day.

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2008-05-02T19:51:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was college's sports carnival. I reported early for the official duties but there were no one else around seven. How efficient, should i have known, i would have slept longer and come later. Maybe as late as xinyun and jiayan. =X

Anyway, did my lane judge duty as usual. Made me feel so stupid standing at one end of the field. Literally made me some wind chime. Cause i was holding on to a flag and the wind was really really very violent, i can feel myself swaying with the wind. The only one that pitied me was the uncle who was pain hearted trying to paint the edge of the field with white paint and everyone else would just step on it before it dries.

As usual, my class relay came in second. But though they kind of won the trophies, their trophies kind of belonged to me.

Then came the sports carnival games. My class LOST every match we have in all the games. With two walkovers by other class. Kind of pathetic, but thats because we all joined the wrong activity. We didnt know there was floorball competition, cause in our class there are like approximately six people including myself who know how to play hockey. We could have joined that competition instead of going to some handball or captain's ball competition.

Never mind, next year, my junior class will be very sporty and we wont be so pathetic as to win only by walkovers.

After the sports carnival, went out with my senior class to have lunch. Lunch was so expensive at the food court, but then we had fun shooting ice at one another. A bit childish, senior and junior class shooting ice at one another. Soon, someone upgraded to throwing ice at one another. If the whole CJC was in the food court, i tell you, the whole food court will be throwing ice around.

We ended the outing with a pool session, with only a small group of guys from 1t13. Everyone had CCAs and rudby match to attend to.

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2008-04-30T02:51:00.000-07:00

HEY SUNSHINES!!!

TODAY I AM FEELING VERY HAPPY!!WEEHOOO

Why? cause i feel so relieved now. No more PIs, No more school for tomorrow and best of all NO more the need to worry about whether i will get a CCA cause i got into student council!!! *screams* The sunshine is really very bright.

Too elated already. But not everyone in my campaign group got into SC as well, so for that bit cannot be too happy. Nevertheless I got a CCA, I got into student council!!! Now i feel like there is some purpose in school. Cause for the past four months, i am floating around aimlessly whenever other people go for their CCAs. BUT now i have a direction.. WEE HOOO

First duty starts this saturday. Going to be ushers for the band concert. Just got the blazer and briefing and everything; i am so excited...

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2008-04-29T07:02:00.000-07:00

HEY SUNSHINES!!!

TODAY IS:

BEN & JERRY'S "FREE CONE DAY" !!!!!

Ben & Jerry are such kind people to be giving out free ice cream of theirs at all of their outlets today! Really brightens up everybody's lives because everyone just loves ice cream. and. Today i asked Jia Yan to come with me cause i am abit embarrassed to go get free stuffs by myself and JY,though she really wanted free stuffs, She die die also must let people ask her to go then she will go. Really want to save face. She even thought that free cone day is giving out of cones only.

So we went to Cathay's outlet. The queue was seriously intimidating and deceiving. i actually thought that i will take an hour just to get my ice cream because the queue took up two levels at cathay. Fortunately, the people quite efficient, distribute ice cream damn fast; took me only half an hour to get my cone. NO wonder some people can afford to go for second round. I got Chunky Monkey and Jy got strawberry flavour. Guess what it matches the colour of the balloon that we got as well. What a coincidence!!!.

writer's note: we are not so cheap and free as to go for a second round. First round satisfied me good enough already.

free ice cream and FREE balloon. WEEEhoooo. JY will always remember this picture.

My balloon is yellow just like the colour of my ice cream and just like the colour of SUNSHINE!!. WeeHooo!!! Just in case you want to know who are the sunshines in my life, its everyone!!! cause everyone brighten up my life and make me happy. That explains why i address everyone as SUNSHINE. !!! By the way, the balloon also stated Ben & Jerry's slogan; the HAPPY people co.

Obviously they want everyone to be happy, so we all should be like sunshine and glow brightly

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2008-04-26T02:12:00.000-07:00

Told you it was going to be 67.

Today is considered productive because of the amount of physics i spammed into my brain today. Then again, how much i learnt is not how much i crammed into my head, but how much i can apply. God, now i just created a paradox for myself.

i bet jia yan would not know what am i talking about. she is very lost now. :X

i thought that i have grown alot. After i read many other people's blog, i realised that many have matured and seasoned since a year ago. It also means that many lives are very busy now considering their blogs remained ceteris paribus while they continued with their lives. Maybe because of education.

Then again education is one BIG vicious circle. I read a text that was pretty much thought provoking.
In summary:
Why do we study so hard?-> so that we can pass our examination.
why do we want to pass our examination?-> so that we can get a good degree/certificate/diploma.
why do we need all these?->to get a good job.
Why do we want a good job?-> to make lots of money.
why make lots of money?-> because everything cost money for instance raising a family.it takes lots of money to sent a kid to college.
And why would a child want to go into college?-> to get a good job.....and then the whole cycle repeats itself again.

I thought i was able to think deeply by myself already, then i read this text then i realised how shallow was my thinking and I am still pondering how to free myself from this vicious circle that edcuation had trapped us in.

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2008-04-21T06:04:00.000-07:00

Go find out what is your strongest multiple intelligence.

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/what.cfm

results showed that i have 100% in visual spatial,lingustic, inter/intra personal skills. with logic and kinaesthetics coming close to the top 4 skills. Then nature and forget about musical talent. i got a close to negligible score.

I did multiple multiple intelligence test to cross reference the reliability of the multiple intelligence test.I totally suck in musical talent thats for sure and my strongest intelligence would be visual spatial that is close to 100% for all of the tests i took. My kinaesthetics is supposed to suck alot as well. But this test i took gave me a high score. My lingustic,logical ,inter/intra personal remained high and close to visual spatial but never more than it.

And Hilda, i am not telling you how those numbers follow a pattern. By the way, if you go back to the second post of this year, it is numbered number 2. SO though it appears to be odd numbers, there was one exception. 31 was also left out due to unconditional circumstances. By right there should be a 31 there.

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2008-04-17T05:53:00.000-07:00

End of campaign week! WEE HOOO

This week has been a totally unproductive week for me. I didnt do much tutorials or revision or work instead i was busy either preparing campaigning materials or slacking away.

Here is one of the many posters that my campaign group had put up. ( it was not really a lot as compared to other groups)

It reads:

" VOL-TO-MOI (voldemort)

(vote to me)."

ALERT!!! WE ARE RUNNNG FOR STUDENT COUNCIL AND WE NEED LOTS OF ENERGY. SO CHANNEL YOUR VOLTS (VOTES) TO US.

and below it says Help us achieve this------> HIGH VOTE-TAGE.

In case you are still wondering who is campaigning within my group It's Yue Qun, Myself (jia jie), Jun Xian and Keane. And we were the ones that provided free SERVE-iettes to everyone in the canteen.

So vote for us next monday. WEE HOO.

I got a riddle from my lecturer today. it goes like this,

decapitalise me and i become all equal. Truncate me and i become second. Cut me of from my front and back and i become two less than before.

Answer was seven and honestly speaking i only managed to get the first statement correct by myself. The rest i couldnt figure out it out myself but nevertheless i was awarded with a FREE packet of pretzels. It wasnt really as nice as he describe it to be. In fact it tasted like salted wood but i just want to say that i got something FREE today.

I bet JY is very jealous when she reads this part of the post.

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2008-04-09T03:50:00.000-07:00

Today is a relatively short and mundane wednesday.

I didnt go for the usually clique meeting in the morning with jiayan,xinyun and hilda instead i went back to class to do my Analayis questions.

First lesson today is maths and i got back my functions FA script that had unpleasant red marks that indicated i had failed. Never felt so stupid with myself for being really careless during the test. Then i went to have GP lecture.

My teacher was the lecturer today and i can tell she really enjoys acting out her points as she went through education. Bimbotic may not be the correct word to describe the lecturer, it should be overdramatic. There was a video shown during the lecture and that was all for GP

then was chinese after break, my teacher was teaching something about family and while she was teaching,everyone else was finishing up on their AQ cause they cannot finish it on time. i was one of the everyone else and because i was too busy i didnt quite understand topic that she was teaching. i got a bit of what she was doing from the text book.

My school day ended with a physic SPA. SPA again,if you really like it then you must be really mad. Seriously you keep doing the experiment repititively that you just get sick and bored of it. unlike chem spa, you dont really get anything interesting out of physic spa. see thats why my day today isnt reallly exciting.

ps: xinyun siad that i need to hightlight the main points of my post because its too wordy and people like her are too impatient to find the main point within the passage. So i took her advice and guess what! its really really effective. Now my message is so precise and concise.

then again, the message is just like the entire post. NOTHING NEW.

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2008-04-06T00:23:00.000-07:00

I just returned from the 34th student council nominees' camp. It is a camp by us and for us and the theme for the camp was WAVE. Basically it was up to us to interpret what we understand from the term WAVE and our final central theme related to WAVE was Unity. That is because we see wave crashing onto a coastal front together as one big wave and it is the unity from every single water droplet that form the strong force of the wave.

It took us a freaking long time and plenty of rejections along the way just to derive onto this central theme Wave. There were lots of ideas being rejected and scraped and removed and trashed for the two days. Not to mention, the numerous amount of proposals done and rejected, just so that we can carry out the activities smoothly.Even right up to the last minute,our proposals were still rejected.

I was in Group A where everyone had opted SA,student activity as their priority choice for the wing they are interested in. I must say this camp really reminded me of uniform group. Everyone is so bonded, disciplined and showed lots of initiative throughout the mass(y)discussions. It kind of suit me well because this is the ideal group of people i enjoyed working with. If I were to comment on what is memorable, i think its the process that i had been with my group that is more memorable as compared to the finale activity.

There was the interview during the camp as well. I am kind of relieved now that it was over. It went quite smoothly like no funny and challenging questions coming out like "do you want to be the president of the SC' neither did i recieve those Ten year series type of questions like "why should we allow you to join council." I got something more unique. Because they asked me to describe myself and i said i considered myself to be a creative person. Then the interviewer asked me to choose any two objecct within the room and make a link between them. So i chose a black stain on the floor and his shoes. And my link was maybe the black color of the shoe sole is wearing off and it was his shoes plus water that caused the stain since there were footprint leading to where he was seating and the stain was mostly concentrated at where his legs when he is sitting down. Then interviewers laughed.

lastly for the camp, there was the Finale. We had prayer service and a journey thing to reflect on ourselves for the past two days in camp. Song and cheer session where we had some cheers like. CJC UNITE!!! WAVE ON... it was something like the flame on thing. We sang 'passed it on" and the college anthem as well. Then enjoyed a mini skit and it was Fondue for the food session. The chocolate fondue session was organised by my group and we see the various type of fruit and mashmallow coming together on a stick coated with chocolate fludge as uniting together. Doesnt sound very sound but everything we do must have some link back to the central theme of wave.

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2008-03-28T05:14:00.000-07:00

i am very free today so i have decided to delicate this post to Ong jia yan. Hopefully she is also free enough to read the post that i have delicated to her.

The girls were supposed to go for tennis today but trials was on monday which meant that they were free from any ccas today and logically means that they were very free to go out. So we ended up in orchard road, supposedly to do shopping but we landed up on the open streets of orchard doing surveys.

Soon got people started promoting Red Bull drinks to us. We each got one can of Red bull drink plus some information booklet about Red Bull at no charge. Then there was this Sunkist competition thing regarding collecting the most poses for them. For posing, we each get one bottle of sunkist plus a slice of orange at no charge.

At that time, orchard had lots of women and girls carrying stalks of sunflowers each. The girls got jealous of the sunflowers and decided to take one each for themselves as well at no charge again.

Jiayan i bet you very happy now that you collected so many goodies at no charge. Though i know you are still jealous of my pencil case and highlighters but today's collection is not bad already so you should be happy with it.

AND Xinyun, i know you have had a small mouth. No wonder you took forever to consume your burger at burger king. So i have made this post Bite size for your pathetically small mouth.

By the way, if you scrutinize my post word for word, you would realised that the word " free" means that you have spare time. It doesnt mean you didnt have to fork out a single cent.

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2008-03-20T20:32:00.000-07:00

Today is the 21st of march. Full moon night, supposedly said to be my strongest day of the whole of march and its also a GOOD Friday. Because of today, yesterday school ended by 4 to prepared for today. The advantages of being in a catholic school and since i had a break before the period at 4, i was able to leave at three and skip Mass Pe altogether.

So happy cause it meant that i finally get to rest after the hectic three days of work and school. I was supposed to take a wonderful nap but i was easily distracted by the television. It was the Discovery channel then, and it was all about ninjas. I was so engrossed in it that i decided that my nap could wake till i finished the documentary.

According to the documentary, ninjas were claimed to have abilities far more superior of a normal being. With the ability to stealth and become invisible. That was all that people percieved the ninja's to behave.This programme, Unsolved History: Ninjas then aims to solve this mystery and history of the ninja.

Ninjas as a group first began to be written about in 15th century feudal Japan as martial organizations predominately in the regions of Iga and Kogaa of central Japan, though the practice of guerrilla warfare and undercover espionage operations goes back much further.

At this time, the conflicts between the clans of daimyo that controlled small regions of land had established guerrilla warfare and assassination as a valuable alternative to frontal assault.Since Bushido, the Samurai Code, forbade such tactics as dishonorable,a daimyo could not expect his own troops to perform the tasks required; thus, he had to buy or broker the assistance of ninja to perform selective strikes, espionage, assassination, and infiltration of enemy strongholds.
There are a few people and groups of people regarded as having been potential historical ninja from approximately the same time period. It is rumored that some of the higher-ranking daimyos and shoguns were in fact ninja, and exploited their role as ninja-hunters to deflect suspicion and obscure their participation in the 'dishonorable' ninja methods and training.

The ninja use of stealth tactics against better-armed enemy samurai does not mean that they were limited to espionage and undercover work: that is simply where their actions most notably differed from the more accepted tactics of samurai. Their weapons and tactics were partially derived from the need to conceal or defend themselves quickly from samurai, which can be seen from the similarities between many of their weapons and various sickles and threshing tools used at the time.

I got these basic information of ninjas from wikipedia. But the show goes more to show how a ninja fights in combat with the help of a specialist in ninjutsu. The Weapons that ninjas used were actually improvised tools used for agriculture, and these tools can be easily concealed from an opponent. And even if a samurai was to see what the weapon the ninja is using, he will not be able to predict how will be used cause samurials are only trained in sword combat.

The warlords then will work together to eliminate these ninjas from causing trouble in their turf. All but one warlord that chose a different approach towards the ninjas, he chose to recruit them and hire them as high offical body guards. These body guards were then disguised as someone unsuspicious like garderners around the area. Because their weapons are actually tools, their gardening tools were least likely to be suspected as weapons.

But what really amazed me about the documentary was the espionage part of ninjas. They claimed that ninjas had some clairvoyance abilities and are able to do remote viewing. So they decided to prove if it is really true that ninjas do have psychic powers. They got a group of people who are able to do remote viewing. They had to actually do remote viewing at the same time a break in was carried out. The reuslts were extremely positive, 50% of them were able to pinpoint the rough location of the hostage and one managed to get it correct. On top of that, they were able to produce very accurate and prominent features of the house as well. They did all these without having even seen or been to the house before.

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2008-03-10T07:35:00.000-07:00

woots... just came back from iceskating.It was the most pathetic class gathering ever. Out of everyone in the class of 1t11, only five came today. Jean, Elicia, Ian, and me. Sihui dropped by with all the food at a much later time.

This was the second time i am skating, the previous time i skate was about 2 years ago. A long gap in between and i had to relearn and rebalanced myself again. But i learnt pretty fast though i fell down more times than the first time. I only lost my balance by myself once. The rest of collisions and people dragging me down as they fall. Super wet when your butt touches the ice. Even up till now, i can still feel the motion when i am falling. Its the psychological effect after a prolonged time of skating.

Everytime i skated a complete round, i feel myself getting better. So this satisfaction drove me to do more rounds around the skating ring. I kept skating and in total i skated for 5 hours inclusive of all the mini breaks where i stop to tie my boot lace and when they resurfaced the ring. Even up till now, as i am blogging, i can have the feeling the i am still skating. Must have skated for too much already. Another psychological impact.

Right now, i really have lots to do. Actually, its the economics project which i think is lots to do. But i seriously need to figure that out before holiday ends because i just gave myself extra work next week!!. I am going back to work when school reopens!!. sounds crazy. but who cares.

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2008-03-03T04:42:00.000-08:00

I tell you the stupidest and dumbest thing happened to me when i was school today.i am posting about it, though its embarassing, to prevent the same situation from repeating. This morning i came to school at 710.( time is 710, take note that school's official starting time is 740 ). I climbed up 5 levels to reach and classroom and learnt that my class shifted all the way right to the other end of the school.

By the time i tidied up my new Home room, JY told me to collect my graphic calculator from her at the canteen. SO me being ME, went down to the canteen to collect the GC. 720 then. Read some juicy information about fun stuffs from an issue of cleo before realising that the first bell went off. 735 then.

Most of the J2s were still in the canteen, and i assumed that hey someone is going to be late anyway, so i dragged the time we took to the quatrangle. Times flies very fast, and waaa laaa, five minutes goes and the second bell went off. 7 40 then. By the time i reached the weighing machine, everyone was still so blur that they are already in fact late. Obediently, (or unknowingly as for some blur sotongs) we reported right in front of I-Z lim.

For that entire period of time under him, it was damn funny. I kept laughing at what he said. NO,make that everyone was laughing at what he said. He is super lame. He made us say the pledge out loud, and claim no exception for the PRs ( they had to say,"we the PRs of singapore.."
crap about if we are late and dont report then no one will know of our existence,even after the JI guy caught us. throughout his speech, he kept refering to LJC, about how we are not LJC but CJC. LJC supposedly meant latecoming/lazy jc i guessed

Once he was done with the latecomers, he went on the the rest of our attire. No tie must buy at $10 or choose to rent at $1 plus $10 deposit...It was super funny. Ok, i admit it was fun being late. BUt it was dumb being late for my reason that is. Thats why's i shall only be late once. And for the rest of the year early. Cause from tomorrow onwards, morning gathering is no longer at the canteen. It shall be near the assembly area.

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2008-03-01T20:59:00.001-08:00

It started out with NS men stationed around my school and soon it spreaded to my house as well. Last Friday after coming home from a wonderful and filling dinner at Swensen's, i came to realised that the enitre Hume Avenue right all the way to the Bukit Batok park had guards all over the outskirts of it. Right in front of my condominium had NS guards stationed there. And it was about 11 then. I felt kind of endangered more than protected. But i had a good night sleep that night and woke up really really late the next morning!!!! That JI guy could have probably fleet to malaysia or somewhere else.Which makes me wonder how he did it? with no money on him and he is half lame as well.

First post for March and i am going to say that it is going to be a very tough month for me. Because i am going to train myself vigorously for the enitre month. I realised that i am not able to make the great leap forward in my standing board jump. Not elastic enough to even stretch to the passing mark. Fast enough to come in last whenever my class had some 2.4 run. Nearly committed suicide whenever i go for suicides. Which left me with sit-ups (which i am very lazy in it, i only did the minimium no. to get an A) and my pull-ups which i have an upperhand advantage because of my lightweight.

So in order not to fail my NATFA, i have decided to swim and jog on alternative days each for the whole of March until i can pass my fitness test.

School started proper a week ago and a week later, its SCHOOL HOLIDAY!!! haha! that was damn fast and to re-evaluate what i had learnt for the first 2 months. I learnt new stuffs for Maths,its damn cool and interesting. Re-learn the some stuffs for both science and learnt that in newton's second law, F is not always equal to MA. Made some awesome friends and classmates. Got smarter intellectually, and got dumber socially.

Like what UnCLE matt enjoys saying, "everyday he(me) comes to school with something dumb and it gets dumber everytime."

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2008-02-27T23:40:00.000-08:00

Today marks the welcoming ceremony for the J1s in CJC and it also means that we all have to wear our CJ uniform to school. With everyone in their CJ uniform now, everyone looks alike that it is became diffcult to distinguish people. At the same time, if you checked up your newspaper, apparently some detentee who is on the run from the detention camp site. Which means he is probably somewhere around the forest area around my school. That explains why there are so many NS guards stationed around whitley and malclom area. But nothing interesting happened. I was hoping that he gave CJC a visit and then the NS men raided in to catch him and we all miss school for a day. OF course i am joking.

4th day together with my new class and i cant say much yet. Except that we won the MINI dragon boat race at kallang. (heard that the previous class also won,so it was a double victory) And we didnt have a class flag for the ceremony but thankfully 2t13 gave us a flag, So we still had something posted up. But overall, its a damn hardworking class. People are already aiming for H3 chemistry at this stage and i see people studying really hard.( These people mug so hard that they are sleeping during lectures though) Who says CJC isnt a place for muggers?

Actually i have alot to say. But the content is usually so much that whenever i try to fit them it, it turned out short and lesser. Cant help it. I have some problems with my command of language.

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2008-02-23T20:17:00.000-08:00

FUOCO house rocks man! Though we didnt win the best house, i still think its the best house ever. Like Fuoco is the new vuglarity, cause it really sounded like the F word. F-U-O-CO Oh Oh!! Haha! ( i thought Arator was going to win best house)

So thats conlcudes the end of the second orientation in CJC. I really had lots of fun with everyone. Not just within my new IG mates but with everyone, like crashers such as Elicia and PONten-niaks like Matthew. It was really fun though i still enjoyed the first orientation better than the second and i think school days were slightly better than the second orientation. But nevertheless i still enjoyed myself. I finally learnt the school anthem properly and the entire school was singing loudly and proudly at the end of orientation night. After which, i rushed down to the lower foyar and checked out which subject combination i got into before the crowd clustered around the boards. Turned out that i got into the 4 H2 PCME class after all. Woah!! i was so afraid that i couldnt get into the 4H2 class.

Right now i am very excited about going to my new class tomorrow. Wonder who is going to end up back in the same class. But i am really screwed up,cause i have totally stopped doing any work or revision since like way way way way before the start of second orientation. Therefore i am going to end up stoning duirng lectures.

As for the boys team, i am so sorry i cannot make it for your Prelims. (I wondered if i am posting to any of them since my blog has gone undetected for a long time) But really, the fate of the newly formed Gold unit depends on the team. Hopefully,yesterday at the HTA, you have enjoyed the pathetic ten minutes of glory and experience of the competition. Since i am not able to be there for the prelims, means that you guys have to give me a chance to be there in the finals. So i am really hoping i get an opportunity to see you guys pitch again.

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2008-02-20T00:46:00.000-08:00

No punishments for playing traunt yesterday. It wasnt really fun when i ponned school because we just did nothing at cineleisure while we waited for the rest of the people to pon and join us. AND we watched a movie at 2 50pm which doesnt even required us to pon in the first place. But anyway who cares? You dont get to pon school on second intake.

On second intake, i pretended i was a second intaker when i came to CJC. Posed my name as Damien. (actually i didnt know how to spell it,until my facilitator spelt it for me) So for the entire day, everyone thought i was a noob sec intake person as i joined everyone for the subject combination talk. The talk got boring and draggy so i left to the canteen, to chill a while and stuffs.

Then i went back and everyone still thinks i am Damien. though there were some incidents where my friends called me by real name, no one really suspected anything. So everyone happily thought there was a Damien in their IG.

i had incidents like " thank you damien" from my ex facilitator who was playing along with me. Or like " of all names you chose to pose, you have to use Damien". Those were from people who really knew my name. And couple of times, I chanced upon the real Damien and he said i had no Orginality with names.

Until towards the end when we had a sec round of attendance taking then my facilitators realised i wasnt Damien. And they kept insisting that Damien was my unregistered name in the NRIC. So now i have became Damien Yong Jia Jie.That was the only fun thing that happened throughout the orientation. I have the pattern of becoming very anti social on my first day of any orientation.

Hopefully tomorrow will be even more fun when i go back and delcared that my name isnt Damien and i shall wear my CJC shirt to show that i am a first intaker.

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2008-02-16T02:34:00.000-08:00

I dropped by Zhonghua yesterday. When i walked to the room, I realised how childish i was in the past. I admit I am still very childish at J1 level, but after walking past a group of bimbo and crazy sec 1s, i realised there are others who are still kids. The noise level at the canteen was also very loud and energetic that it just screams KIDS.

And. Everyone was surprised that i went back for training. I was surprised that the JNCOs were taking training for that day. (People are asking if i skipped hockey to return for trainng. ) Training turned out as it could have been for me, though it was different having new people leading the training.

Anyway, that was yesterday. Total Defence Day. Had a fire drill upon receiving my first failure for GP. If it had been a real fire, everyone will be reporting to heaven already. Not to the field. But surprisingly, our timing was reported better than the previous fire drill the college had.

Then my class took a detour session around the school after the drill. Purpose was to drag and be late for the next lesson.It was funny of course, and i learned new corridors within the college compound. Yup, we turned up for the economics lecture last. But the late wasnt very significant because everyone else was late as well.

So that was about yesterday. Dumbest joke reported. K.L!!!
coldest joke i cracked: A man walked into a bar, and he said OUCH!!
which knight created the round table? ( sir cumference)

As for the schedule of today, it had been lots of cartoon and TV watching. I was watching the avatar:legend of aang just now and its really cool and great show.

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2008-02-14T03:47:00.000-08:00

i went to school with a bag of cookies and came back with a bag full of goodies. wiiiipiiii!!
Really got lots of stuffs from you guys. Yes. lots and lots of chocolate to fatten myself,but i will refrigerate them till like next week when i am feeling much better with my throat. Hope you like the cookies i prepared for you guys. It had almond flakes and chocolate chips in it,with a tiny heart that i put on top.

I feel really great today when i woke up! Apparently, my headaches and bodyaches are gone!! Last night's body temperature was 37.7 degrees and today's body temperature was 37.5! wooah Hottest dude in class for a date. HAha.

Its damn great today although i am stuck at home. i slept from 3 till 6.45 just now and it was damn shiok!! Dont feel like going out to celebrate cause i cannot eat much of outside food due to my sore throat and cough(which i think spreaded from Matthew)

this time post is short and sweet cause its valentine's day.

off for fondue.

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2008-02-11T02:01:00.000-08:00

I have nothing to blog about CNY cause it was the most boring and pathetic celebration as compared to the rest of the year. WHY? cause there was 100% no gambling involved for the entire 3 days. It was so boring that i slept for like nearly 6 hours more at my grandmother's place during the day. Worst of all, the ang baos collected didnt even hit 50.. and i had a hangover.

Man.. hangover was terrible. Shouldnt have fall asleep after drinking. But anyway, i am feeling like dying now. Seriously, bad phlem and cough and headaches and bodyaches..

these were the aftermaths of bad celebration. Plus the undone homework and crap. I managed to finish my AP on time but during physics, my class guys were having some class bonding activity outside class because of not doing the discussions questions.

End of terrible day. Tomorrow is going to be worst. Two hours of chinese lessons plus tough conditioning during PE.

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2008-02-06T01:17:00.000-08:00

Starting off the post with HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!!!!!

The concert I had at CJC was definately one of the best concert i had in an insitute since the beginning of my education. It wasnt made until very CHI-na type so whenever that Emcee spoke in chinese, it kind of spoiled the concert spirit. Nevertheless i enjoyed myself. The performance were quite cute for some of them, not to mention bimbotic parts as well. ODAC's perfomance was kind of funny but still it was a good show put up.

After the Concert, my class 1t11 had a potluck and yusheng session. I must really thank jean's mother for the effort of preparing so much food for us to eat. We had TOSSED salad, fried bee hoon and fries and chicken drumlets and everything else. Now we have too much leftover potato chips and junk food that we can snack on when we return back to school.

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As for the night before the eve of CNY. It was a terribly fun and crazy night for my NPCC squad. Not to forget to mention that the unit is now a GOLD unit people!! hoorays!! keep up with the good work. Basically, we had a squad gathering at PS,ordered lots and lots of pizza till it became a buffet course at pizza hut and cracked lame jokes we heard.

Then we went down to the Istana park and took lots and lots of stupid, retarded and group candid shots until the digital camera went out of battery. If you happened to be strolling down to PS, look across the road and you see a bunch of retards doing spastic posture. It looks as though we were disturbing the president since he lives near by.

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2008-02-04T04:02:00.000-08:00

2day, i had monday blues when i woke up. My body had been going on for two consecutive days oversleeping and today you asked me to wake up early- its no wonder people get monday blues.

Anyway, the blues sort of disappear when school starts. Beginning with a chemistry CA which i had had expected to be doing during the tutorial session. After which, my butt was planted to the seat of LT1 like for half the day until i left for recess.

That wasnt the main point for today. Though something damn scandalous happened during economics tutorial and everyone was like laughing out loud during tutorial ( i kind of felt sorry for the home tutor as we are never paying full attention)

The main point is i spend quite alot today on stuffs. I left school freaking early(rarely and never had i did that) just to go home,take money and head down to Queensway to do my last minute shopping before the new year starts. It was the FIRST time, i am going for track shoes and i really had a hard time even deciding what to buy. So i ended up buying clothes before a nice salesperson helped me out with what type of shoes i should get for myself.

Then i tried to shop for something to give this valentine's. i had a terrible time even thinking of an idea that doesnt make me look cheap and ungrateful at the same time. BUT in the end i thought of something and i shall end my post here in case i spoil the fun.

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2008-02-03T00:17:00.000-08:00

About time i seriously come back to blogging and remove all the dust that is covering my url link. It's my first post of the year 2008 and its already february! Never mind about that cause the new year (chinese) isnt here yet so i am not late for the rat year.

Start proper. For viewers who are reading this (very unlikely to be any due to my abscence), i am currently a student in Catholic junior college, 1t11,yeah thats my class. Its a really fun place to be in, really. Minus all the crap and nonsense that everyone has been saying like for a decade- regrading CJC's "high" pregnency rate. It had been a decade's rumor so its abit unbelievable.

So fun, cjc had been that i am intending to stay there after the first intake, though many orthodox people will state that 10 points desevre, a much better place. Enough for where i am currently studying.

Plans for the seventeenth year i am living (very grateful to be still living)
1.Do 4 H2 subjects ( appeal if i dont get it, cause i really want to get it)

2.Have lots and lots of fun- indeed i am doing that right now and my mum is complaining that i really ought to balance my time and MONEY well.

3.Settle down ASAP and concentrate on my education so that i can get that NS scholarship at the end of 2 years. At this rate i dont think i can do that.

4. Produce extremely good results so that i can qualify for one H3 subject (likely to be chemistry) by next year

5. pretend that i am not a nerd while i try to accomplish the goals i set myself.

6.have more fun.

7. becoming a better person ( really someone got to stop it) And i am really holding back the temptation to delicate the "potential breakup song" in cjc on valentine's day.....

8. go catch the movie p.s i love you

just read that book and i think it was kind of touching and sweet and interesting. maybe because its the first time i am reading such a book.

2007-11-26T20:09:00.000-08:00

i am back and i doubt if anyone will realise that i am back to blogging. (unless,you have been refreshing and refreshing at my blog over and over again.) By the way, my last post had been in july when i finally realised that i was too busy to blog.since then i totally forgot that i had a blog.

Until today. where there was supposed to be training and i ignorantly mistake it for another training date. So i woke up late and here i am at home slacking away while everyone is slogging. At least i have time now to finish reading up all the books i had borrowed from the library. '

Right now, there are so many things that i can blog about. In fact so many events had happened that i do not know where to start. Therefore i have decided to be lazy and not blog any thing that had happened. instead this post shall simply be a proof that i have returned to blogging.

2007-07-27T05:22:00.000-07:00

technology is breaking down around me. Starting from my PS2 to my very own laptop. Really falling apart as right now i am having lagging problems from the internet. Maybe it is because i am starting to cut down on the time spent on the internet that made my laptop so lazy. It is taking more than normal to load a page and after loading there are still missing information really irritating. Coincidently, all these happened with the arrivial of the new cable from star hub.

Maybe it is a warning or reminder that O levels is less than 90 days from now. Better start studying now or something like that. As much as i hate to say this, i guessed this is called "blessing in disguise"

nevertheless i found a new recreation- watching cartoon.

in any case, i am going to desert this blog sooner or later. because apparently no. 1 my life is not very interesting as you can see from what i usually post. No.2 the internet is lagging on me and it wont be long before i cant use the internet. No.3 i shall take that as a message that i should be spending more time on my studies.

therefore i am going to desert this blog for a period of time. unless i find it really necessary to blog about something, i shall leave this blog as it is for now.

bye bye blog for now.
hopefully i wont forget you and by then i hope i have plenty of interesting tales of my life to share with you.